Rasdaman extends standard relational databases to provide storage and retrieval of multi-dimensional raster data (i.e., arrays) of unlimited size using an SQL-style raster query language with highly effective server-side optimization. Data are stored in a PostgreSQL database, thereby achieving tight information integration. A rasdaman driver is a part of the GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) library for geospatial data formats, a MapServer integration is available in beta. Access interfaces include OGC WCS, WCPS, and WPS, as well as C++ and Java APIs in addition to the rasdaman raster query language. Version 8.2 comes with IQL (Integrated Query Language), an SQL integration supporting mixed meta, vector, and raster queries (in beta).
Hence, rasdaman provides a flexible, fast, and scalable raster database enabling navigation, extraction, aggregation, and ad-hoc spatio-temporal analysis on sensor, image and statistics data.
The rasdaman technology is stable and mature, deployed in production since over 10 years; the French National Geographic Institute runs rasdaman on a dozen-Terabyte airborne image map. At the ACM Principles of Database Systems Conference in 2007, raster database expert Rona Machlin characterizes rasdaman as “the most comprehensive implementation of such a system”.
- true multi-dimensionality - from 1-D over 2-D to 3-D, 4-D, and beyond
- powerful, flexible query language for tasks such as visualization, classification, convolution, aggregation, and many more geospatial functions
- spatial indexing anda adaptive tiling for fast data access
- tile streaming for scalability and high performance on moderate hardware
- multi-user support through server multiplexing
- full information integration of raster data with all other geographic data in the PostgreSQL database
- OGC WCS 2.0, WCPS 1.0, WPS 1.0
Website: www.rasdaman.org
Licence:
Software Version: 8.2
Supported Platforms: Linux, Mac, Solaris
API Interfaces: rasql, C++, Java; OGC-based WCS, WCPS, WCS-T, and WPS interfaces
Support: www.rasdaman.com