So, here is this new cool thing, these NoSQL databases. And so there is my data: lines of lines of lines of meteorological data: values representing certain measurements at a particular station (indicated by the WMO number, not coordinates), at a specific time.
Not every station measures every parameter, and not every parameter is measured all the time.
I store this data (30 year value of hourly values, resulting in ~ 1 billion values) currently in MySQL. The constant growth and unsurpassed addition of even more data give me a little headache.
Reading about NoSQL-based systems that seem to scale quite easily, I was wondering if NoSQL is a viable data storage concept for meteorological data. Do you have any experience?
Update: I forgot about typical queries: most queries require data on the time axis: Ie give me the temperature of the station 066310 from 01/01/2010 00:00 to 01/01/2010 00:00.
Or: give me the latest values of all the parameters of a particular station.
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