Ch. 1: Introduction — Notes

[jathavaan]

Purpose

Working notes for Chapter 1: Introduction of the master thesis
"Benchmarking Cloud-Native and Traditional Geospatial Technologies."

Sections covered

• 1.1 Motivation
• 1.2 Project description (RQ1, RQ2, RQ3)
• 1.3 Contributions
• 1.4 Scope and limitations

Key topics to document

• Motivation: why compare cloud-native (GeoParquet + DuckDB) against traditional (PostGIS, Shapefile) stacks
• Three research questions: RQ1 (cloud-native vs. traditional), RQ2 (distributed Sedona vs. single-node scaling), RQ3 (consistency of winners across query patterns)
• Contributions list: benchmark framework, network-transfer-as-primary-metric, effect-size reporting
• Scope boundaries: Norwegian building data, Azure only, read-path benchmarks, no write workloads

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