Performance investigation of selected NoSQL databases for massive remote sensing image data storage

Today's sensors are like eyes in the sky, thanks to the growth of satellite remote sensing technologies. Therefore, we see a steady evolution of the usage of different types of sensor, from airborne and satellites platforms which are generating large quantities of remote sensing image for divers applications such as; smart city, disaster management, military intelligence and others. As a result, the rate of growth in the amount of data by satellite is increasing dramatically. The velocity has exceeded 1TB per day and it will certainly increase in the future. However, it becomes crucial for these huge volume data to be stored. So, how to store and manage it efficiently becomes a real challenge because traditional ways have intensive issues; they are expensive and difficult to extend. Therefore, we need some scalable and parallel models for remote sensing data storage and processing. In this paper, we describe a scalable and distributed architecture for massive remote sensing data storage based on three No SQL databases (Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, MongoBD). Also, a Hadoop-based framework is proposed to manage the big remote sensing data in a distributed and parallel manner.