Tag: SedonaDB

SedonaDB is a new single-node analytical database developed by the Apache Sedona community, designed to treat geospatial data as a first-class element rather than an add-on. Built in Rust and powered by Apache Arrow and DataFusion, it provides a fast, memory-efficient engine for interactive and medium-scale spatial analytics. SedonaDB supports both SQL and Python interfaces, making it accessible to data engineers and analysts, and it works natively with formats like GeoParquet, GeoJSON, and Shapefiles. Unlike traditional databases that require extensions to handle geospatial queries, SedonaDB integrates spatial operations—including joins, range queries, and nearest-neighbor searches—directly into its core.