TileDB lightning talk: Time to depart from file formats and focus on engines and APIs
The earth observation industry has moved from one file format to the next. As dataset sizes expand and more information moves to the cloud, file formats become increasingly cumbersome for geospatial scientists. In fact, the issues have become so acute that the ESIP Summer Meeting hosted a panel titled, "The Saga Continues: Cloud-Optimized Data Formats", featuring a group of experts discussing the usability of the current landscape of “cloud-friendly” formats.
In this presentation, Stavros, the original creator of TileDB, discusses the problems with file formats and advocates for an alternative approach, urging the earth observation community to build storage engines and APIs that can neatly abstract their data format problems. He also provides a light introduction to TileDB and its approach to this problem, which is built on multi-dimensional arrays.
See the full ESIP Summer Meeting 2021 agenda at https://sched.co/jMNb and view the source footage at • ESIP Summer Session 2021: The Saga Continu... .
Contents of this video
00:00 – Introduction
02:18 – Problems with “Formats”
09:07 – Benefits from Storage Engines and APIs
10:02 – What is TileDB?
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