Im not sure I can understand everything you say but those dudes claim to have implemented a super fast search algorithm (like google search) which searches for only the points you will need each time and brings them to your screen. You think that could reduce the huge amount of data required for this to work?1
It's not a matter of how they search... it's what they are searching. Maybe you can efficiently search a terabyte of data but you still need a terabyte of data..
And still their descriptions always accurately (if somewhat deceptively) describe the algorithm I was talking about.