Feature request: TileDB support

[RaananHadar]

TileDB is a next gen data storage engine with excellent s3 and gdal support. While not as ubiquitous as COG, it has many advantages.

As TiTiler is a very easy to use, being able to use TiTiler to open TileDB raster data would be very useful. I hope you consider this.

[vincentsarago]

@RaananHadar, TileDB has direct support in GDAL but it's an optional driver (need custom compilation). If you compile GDAL with TileDB support and then install rasterio pointing to your GDAL source (pip install titiler.application --no-binary rasterio) you would have TileDB support in titiler.

TiTiler itself is file format agnostic and rely on drivers available in your rasterio/gdal installation

[rowanwins]

TileDB stored arrays typically don't have overviews (although there are probably some workarounds) so I'm not sure how well it would perform compared to storing your data in COGs...

[RaananHadar]

That's a legitimate point. I know that tiledb has map server integration. So I'll check on their slack for best practices.

I still think that this can be useful for interactive exploratory data analysis.