So his comment is more along the lines of, "I was using a screwdriver to pound in this nail and it was taking forever, but then I started using a hammer and man...it went fast!"
“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”