SedonaDB

Spec sheet

What it does

SedonaDB is an open-source single-node analytical database engine with geospatial data as a first-class citizen.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Integrations

The project describes interoperability with PyArrow-compatible libraries including GeoPandas, DuckDB, and Polars.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Security

The repository page links to a Security policy, but the opened page does not state specific security certifications or compliance claims.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The project directs users to GitHub Discussions and its Discord community to ask developers questions.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Founded

2025Read 28 Sep 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Architecture

Its architecture uses columnar in-memory datasets, spatial indexing, CRS tracking, and Arrow format.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Interfaces

SedonaDB offers Python and SQL interfaces, and its quickstart also documents an R package and SQL query function.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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.Read 2 Oct 2026 · github.com

Spatial queries

Documented query types include spatial range, KNN, spatial join, and KNN join queries.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

Storage integration

The documentation demonstrates reading data from AWS S3 and working with Iceberg tables through PyIceberg and Arrow.Read 2 Oct 2026 · sedona.apache.org

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Where Specifiction places it

• Spatial Databases#27 of 407.4