Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support GEO.
With native geospatial data type support in Apache Iceberg and Parquet, you can seamlessly connect engines like Wherobots, PostGIS, Apache Sedona, Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery to the same Iceberg table storage, while leveraging the cost and performance benefits of querying Parquet data.These changes will enable better short and long term economics for geospatial solutions, make existing solutions lower cost and new ones accessible, and most importantly, bring much needed innovation into our physical world. New solutions will flourish because these formats give organizations a new freedom to innovate; you get to choose the best tool for the job over time without having to shuttle data between systems, your costs go down, innovation accelerates, and it levels the playing field with respect to who can provide the best solution for your data.
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