+1 excited for this development!! On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM Feng Zhang <fengzh...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 > > On 2025/08/16 22:38:55 Jia Yu wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As you know, one limitation of Sedona is that it must run on top of a > > distributed query engine such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Snowflake > > to execute queries. This makes installation difficult and the overall > user > > experience and performance less than ideal. A few Sedona PMC members and > > committers (Kristin, Furqaan, Feng, Pranav, and myself) have been > thinking > > about how we can make things easier for our users. > > > > To address this, we’re exploring the idea of building a standalone > > distributed database query engine designed specifically for geospatial > > compute. We plan to start with a single-machine spatial database engine > > that’s simple to install, easy to use, and delivers strong performance. > > We’ve written some initial code in Rust, though it’s still at a very > early > > stage. Our goal is to create a dedicated repository and begin pushing > > commits so we can gather community feedback and iterate together. > > > > We’d love to hear your thoughts. If there are no objections, I’ll go > ahead > > and create a Sedona sub-repository named sedona-db. > > > > Thanks, > > Jia > > >
