Why developers like Tile38

What is Tile38?

It is an open source (MIT licensed), in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON.

Tile38 is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.

Tile38 is an open source tool with 9.2K GitHub stars and 570 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Tile38's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Tile38?

Companies

3 companies reportedly use Tile38 in their tech stacks, including ZGPS, dapem, and wulo.

ZGPS

dapem

wulo

Developers

13 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tile38.

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Tile38 Integrations

Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, and C# are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tile38. Here's a list of all 18 tools that integrate with Tile38.

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Scala

Decisions about Tile38

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Tile38 in their tech stack.

Gagan Jakhotiya

Engineering Manager at BigBasket · Oct 5, 2023 | 5 upvotes · 62.4K views

Needs advice

Aerospike

MySQL

and

Tile38

I have a very limited but significant use case for spatial index in a routing service. I see these indexes not growing beyond 10,000 geometries for the next 1 year and maybe 100,000 for the next 3 years. The solution needs to be approached from a delivery timeline perspective mostly because the use case also comes with a slightly relaxed compute time SLA and cost optimum implementation PoV.

We have chosen R-Tree based index as a suitable choice for our use case. We are already using Aerospike and MySQL in our stack. MySQL supports R-Tree and has good docs as well. I couldn't find anything specific to R-Tree with Aerospike. Also, generally would like to understand from the performance perspective how these two choices would fare with something like Tile38?

Suggestions beside these are also most welcome.

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Tile38's Features

Spatial index with search methods such as Nearby, Within, and Intersects
Realtime geofencing through webhooks or pub/sub channels
Object types of lat/lon, bbox, Geohash, GeoJSON, QuadKey, and XYZ tile
Support for lots of Clients Libraries written in many different languages
Variety of protocols, including http (curl), websockets, telnet, and the Redis RESP
Server responses are RESP or JSON
Full command line interface
Leader / follower replication
In-memory database that persists on disk

Tile38 Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Tile38?

PostGIS

PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

Redis

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

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