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Asked: 2026-06-16T06:24:42+00:00

We want to build a web service to return some images (like google map

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We want to build a web service to return some images (like google map tiles).

And the source data is organized as the esri compact cache format,the key of our service is to read the tiles from the bundles.

I am not sure how to choose the platform,windows or linux?

It is said that the linux have a bettor IO reading/writing performance than that of windows.

However java is our only choose if we choose linux,so I want to know if there is any points we should know to impove the IO reading performnce in linux?

PS:

In winodws platform,we will build the service based on .net4 using c#,and deploy the service use iis.

In linux,we will build the service using java (maybe based on spring mvc or some other mvc framework),and deploy the service using tomcat.

Update:

We may have the following source compact files in different folds:

L1
    RxxCxx.bundle
    RxxCxx.bundlx
L2
    RxxCxx.bundle
    RxxCxx.bundlx

And the request from the client may looks like this:

http://ourserver/maptile?row=123&col=234&level=1.png

For this requst,we will go in to the fold L1 since the level is 1,then read the RxxCxx.bundlx file first,since this file is the metadata that till tell us the position(the offset and length in RxxCxx.bundle) of the data for render the image(row=123&col=234),then we will read the RxxCxx.bundle according to the offset and length. Then we render the data to an image by write them to the response and set the content type to “image/png” or something else.

This is a whole procceed to handle a request.

Then I wonder if there is any documents or exist demos which can show me how to handle these type of IO reading?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I understand this may sound as a groundless statement, but use *nix unless you have to use Windows. The only situation where you have to have Windows servers in your environment is when you choose MS SQL Server DBMS (it is almost a Sybase but is a way cheaper), in which case have Windows box for the DB and *nix server for middle tier.

    Java is the best technology for millisecond grade middleware, mainly for the amount of mature standartized open source technologies available. Everything from coding (Eclipse, NetBeans, Idea) to manual (ant, maven) and automatic (teamcity, hudson/jenkins) builds, testing, static code analysis is there, is standartized, is open source, and is backed up by a multimillion size community.

    Linux is the best server side platform for performance, stability, ease of maitenance, quality of the development environment – an extremely powerful command line based IDE. You can expect multimonth uptime from a Linux server, but not from Windows.

    Tomcat/Servlet (or Jetty/Servlet) is a classic industrial combination in many financial institutions where stability is the #1 priority.

    And lastly, the IO performance concern: a high quality user space non-blocking IO code will be CPU and hardware bandwidth bound, so OS will not be determining factor. Though fancy things like interrupts affinity, threads pinning, informed realtime tuning, kernel bypass I believe are easier to do on Linux.

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