Open Source Continues to Drive National Standards
January 14, 2013
Cloudant offers a managed database service in order to enhance search options on top of content management. Last fall Cloudant announced integrated text indexing and search based on Apache Lucene, which means the power of the leader open source search architecture. Building on its success, Cloudant has now joined the Open Geospatial Consortium in an effort to accelerate innovation and development of location aware apps and dynamic geo queries. Read the Directions Magazine article, “Cloudant Joins the OGC to Promote Geospatial Standards and Location-Based Applications,” for all of the details.
The article gets to the heart of the announcement:
“Cloudant today announced that it has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international consortium that serves as a forum for collaboration on the development of geospatial interoperability standards. By joining the OGC, Cloudant aims to integrate geospatial standards into the Cloudant NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) so Web, mobile and proprietary app developers can more easily introduce new geospatial features and analytics into their applications.”
Cloudant is doing well, but the greater issue is the continuing importance of open source technology on the national stage. Open source is contributing to standards and informing progress in all facets of technology. Another powerful software solution based on Apache Lucene is LucidWorks. They offer LucidWorks Search to satisfy enterprise search needs and LucidWorks Big Data to answer that emerging problem.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 14, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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