Forum: Ferret Ferret indexing openstreetmap.org data

I want to use Ferret to index openstreetmap.org's (OSM) node data: 400M
pairs of latitudes and longitudes.

Has anyone already done this?

What optimizations can I use? I don't need to access the data while
it's indexing, if that helps.

Can grid computing help here? Can I index chunks of data separately
and then efficiently merge the indexes?

I realize OSM has lots more data (ways, tags, relations, etc), but
indexing the nodes (to find all nodes within a given
latitude/longitude range) would be my first step.

I also realize MySQL or PostgreSQL could do this, but I'm looking for
an embedded/serverless solution and sqlite3 indexing is too slow.

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