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PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source ORDBMS (Object Relational Database Management System). It is used in many open source geospatial systems. OpenEarth has chosen PostgreSQL to be on of the two pillars for distributing standardized dtaa, in addition to a netCDF-CF-OPeNDAP stack for large collections of gridded data (BLOBS - Binary Large OBjects) for which ORDBMS are not optimized (e.g. decades of satellite imagery or terabytes of output from numerical models, see these examples). In fact,

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