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SedonaDB
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Apache SedonaDB
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Open-source single-node engine · no paid tiers stated
Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com
On the record
- Architecture
- Its architecture uses columnar in-memory datasets, spatial indexing, CRS tracking, and Arrow format.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- File formats
- The feature list names GeoParquet, Shapefile, and GeoJSON; the repository README says vector support includes GeoParquet, WKT, WKB, and formats supported by GeoPandas.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Governance and license
- The repository describes SedonaDB as a subproject of Apache Sedona governed by the Apache Software Foundation and identifies its license as Apache-2.0.github.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- GPU support
- GPU-accelerated spatial joins require a SedonaDB build with GPU support, NVIDIA CUDA 12 or later, and an NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 7.5 or higher.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project describes interoperability with PyArrow-compatible libraries including GeoPandas, DuckDB, and Polars.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Intended workloads
- The project describes SedonaDB as suited to smaller and medium datasets on local machines or cloud instances, and points to SedonaSpark, SedonaFlink, or SedonaSnow for distributed workloads.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- SedonaDB offers Python and SQL interfaces, and its quickstart also documents an R package and SQL query function.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Memory limits
- Memory-limited execution with automatic spill-to-disk is supported, but the documented default enforces no memory limit and does not spill to disk.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Raster support
- The repository README says raster support is coming soon; release notes for 0.4.1 list GDAL-backed raster functions and raster-vector spatial joins.github.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Security
- The repository page links to a Security policy, but the opened page does not state specific security certifications or compliance claims.github.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Spatial queries
- Documented query types include spatial range, KNN, spatial join, and KNN join queries.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Storage integration
- The documentation demonstrates reading data from AWS S3 and working with Iceberg tables through PyIceberg and Arrow.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to GitHub Discussions and its Discord community to ask developers questions.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- What it does
- SedonaDB is an open-source single-node analytical database engine with geospatial data as a first-class citizen.sedona.apache.org · read 2 Oct 2026
