alexgleith/mbtiles-server repository overview

⁠MBTiles Server

Provides a compatible WMTS Tile Server from MBTiles.

⁠Install

$ npm install -g mbtiles-server

⁠Quickstart

$ mbtiles-server --cache /Users/mac/mbtiles --verbose --port 3000
MBTiles Server Service

  cache:         /Users/mac/mbtiles
  protocol:      http
  port:          3000
  domain:        localhost
  verbose:       true

⁠Benchmark

• 1 Active User => 400 requests/min
• 1 Passive User => 50 requests/min

Total 24,000 requests / min

Using mbtiles-server you could easily sustain 60 active users and up to 480 passive users. These tests were done on the server locally, network traffic and switches could slow down these results significantly.

⁠CLI Help

For any additional help using the CLI, use the --help flag.

  Provides a compatible WMTS Tile Server from MBTiles.

  Usage
    $ mbtiles-server

  Options
    --cache           [~/mbtiles] Cache
    --protocol        [http] Protocol
    --port            [5000] Port
    --domain          [localhost] Domain
    --verbose         [false] Verbose output

  Examples
    $ mbtiles-server --cache /Users/mac/mbtiles --port 5000 --verbose

⁠Environment Variables

Environment variables can be defined instead of entering your options via the CLI.

• MBTILES_SERVER_CACHE
• MBTILES_SERVER_PROTOCOL
• MBTILES_SERVER_PORT
• MBTILES_SERVER_DOMAIN
• MBTILES_SERVER_VERBOSE

⁠Docker

A Dockerfile is provided for easy Docker deployment

$ docker build -t mbtiles-server .
$ docker run --rm -it \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v ~/mbtiles/:/root/mbtiles \
  mbtiles-server

Start containers automatically

https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/host_integration/⁠

$ docker run -d \
  --name mbtiles-server \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v ~/mbtiles/:/root/mbtiles \
  mbtiles-server

⁠WMTS

The goal of providing a WMTS enabled service is to be performance oriented and scalable. Therefore, servers must be able to return tiles quickly. A good way to achieve that is to use locally stored pre-rendered tiles that will not require any image manipulation or geo-processing.

⁠API

⁠Server

Parameters

• options [string⁠] Server Options
  • options.cache [string⁠] CACHE file path (optional, default ~/mbtiles)
  • options.domain [string⁠] URL Domain (optional, default 'localhost')
  • options.port [string⁠] URL Port (optional, default 5000)

Examples

server({cache: '/Users/mac/mbtiles', port: 5000, verbose: true})