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Re:Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0 by derefr on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:40PM (#13287698)
> Tile38 uses the Redis protocol

Under the hood, is Tile38 a distribution of Redis with a Tile38 Redis module?

If so, could the Tile38 module be used in "regular" Redis alongside other Redis modules?

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Re:Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0 by tidwall on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#13288073)
It's custom. I explored a Redis fork months ago, prior to the ability for modules. https://github.com/tidwall/redis-gis

I then tried to make a module but redis modules do not support hooking into the pubsub tooling, so Tile38 live geofencing and webhooks were not possible.

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Re:Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0 by nrjdhsbsid on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:01PM (#13287854)
Lol looks like this database needs its own database. Yeah seems like it should be a plugin or library not sure why it's standalone if it's just backed by redis.
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Re:Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0 by tidwall on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:34PM (#13288081)
It's not backed by Redis. It's fully standalone. I wish I could have made a redis module back when I started the project, but I'm plenty happy how Tile38 has matured.
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Re:Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index, v1.7.0 by nrjdhsbsid on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:19PM (#13288639)
Eh, fair enough then. If you don't have to setup redis yourself it doesn't really matter
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