Case Study: Esri achieves faster geospatial insights with Alluxio

Using Alluxio to enhance ArcGIS data capability and get faster insights from all your data

Esri, the global leader in GIS software, needed a better way to read and write geospatial data across many distributed storage systems such as Amazon S3, HDFS, and OpenStack Swift, especially where those stores were not natively supported by ArcGIS. This created extra development work because teams often had to switch APIs and modify code to handle different data sources.

Alluxio provided a memory-speed data layer and unified global namespace that let ArcGIS access disparate storage systems without changing application code, using simple mounts and a REST endpoint for integration. With Alluxio, Esri reduced development effort, improved access to unsupported data stores, and gained faster data performance that helped deliver insights more quickly.

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