Why rasdaman saves your budget

For solution providers and application developers rasdaman constitutes the ideal toolkit to rapidly enable your own products and applications with fast, flexible raster databases.

• High added value through rasdaman as OEM component. Your GIS solution has a user-oriented app logic with great look and feel. For meta and vector data you already have fast data management. Then rasdaman is the booster for fast, flexible management of large raster volumes. A competitive advantage which immediately pays off in licences.

• Simple, easy-to-maintain app code. Data access and extraction is accomplished through simple statements sent to the database engine, such as cutout, overlaying, colouring, data search, and format conversion. Database application developers immediately find themselves in the SQL style and the object-oriented C++/Java development environment. THe resulting app code is lightweight, hence less error prone and easier to maintain.

  The following code piece sketches a rasdaman GIS coupling using some fictitious Java method crop_and_scale() which extracts a cutout from a map and scales it (without coordinate transformation, for reasons of simplicity):

  RasterMap crop_and_scale ( Oid id, int xlo, int ylo, int xhi, int yhi, float s ) // get box (xlo,ylo) .. (xhi,yhi) from object with identifier id, // scale it using scale factor s { OQLQuery myQu = myApp.newOQLQuery(); myQu.create( "select scale( map [ " + xlo + ":" + xhi + "," + ylo + ":" + yhi + "]," + s + ") from map where oid(map) = " + id ); // resulting query string is: // "select scale( map [ xlo:xhi, ylo:yhi ], s ) from map where oid(map)=id" DBag result = (DBag) myQu.execute(); // give back result to caller (we know there is only one element in the bag): Iterator iter = result.iterator(); return( iter.next().getarray() ); }

  Extensive documentation, programming examples as source snippets, and the HTML hypertext documentation give detailed help ona mouse click.

• Conformance with international standards. Interoperabilitä ist heute eine wesentliche Anforderung. rasdaman gewährleistet dies: Die flexible Anfragesprache baut auf dem jahrzehntelang bewährten ISO-Standard SQL92 auf. C++- und Java-API implementieren den Industriestandard für Objektdatenbanken, ODMG, in seiner aktuellen Version 2.0.

• Fast, competent Hotline. If you have a special problem wich particular challenges: Our experienced developers are only a phone call away.