
CHAPTER 4
NoSQL Geographic Databases:
An Overview
Cláudio de Souza Baptista,
a,
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Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires,
a
Daniel Farias Batista Leite,
a
Maxwell Guimarães de Oliveira
a
and Odilon Francisco de Lima Junior
b
Introduction
Web 2.0 refers to a new form of using the World Wide Web in which users
are encouraged to add value to applications as they operate them (Amer-
Yahia and Halevy 2007). Examples of such applications include blogs, wikis,
and social networks. The amount of data has increased exponentially, as
well as the need to store, retrieve and manipulate it effectively. As a result,
databases of a size that have never existed before have emer ...