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Welcome to rasdaman,

the Scalable Multi-Dimensional Array Analytics Server!

This is the website of the open-source rasdaman ("raster data manager") project. Rasdaman extends standard relational database systems with the ability to store and retrieve multi-dimensional raster data (​arrays) of unlimited size through an ​SQL-style query language. On such sensor, image, or statistics data appearing, e.g., in earth, space, and life science applications rasdaman allows to quickly set up array-intensive services which are distinguished by their flexibility, speed, and scalability.

Rasdaman is brought to you by the guys writing the geo raster standards, including ​OGC WCS and ​WCPS, the OGC raster query language. The petascope component of rasdaman provides service interfaces based on the ​OGC ​WCS, ​WCPS, ​WCS-T, and ​WPS. For several of these, rasdaman will be reference implementation. Since Apriil 2011, rasdaman is available on the ​OSGeo Live DVD.

Rasdaman embeds itself smoothly into ​PostgreSQL; further, a ​GDAL rasdaman driver is available, and likewise a ​MapServer integration (beta). A ​PostGIS query language integration is under work, see our planning.

​EarthLook is a demonstration site showcasing rasdaman in a variety of 1-D to 4-D geo use cases.

News

• November, 2011 -- Stephan Meissl, ​EOX GmbH Austria, is new committer. He has been contributing substantially in particular wrt. ​MapServer, ​GDAL, and rasdaman VM issues.
• September, 2011 -- the ​EarthServer project has started where six 100+ TB earth science databases will be built by BGS, EOX, Jacobs University, NASA, PML, and MEEO using rasdaman, enabling distributed querying.
• July, 2011 -- rasdaman version 8.2 has been released.
• April, 2011 -- rasdaman has been incorporated in the ​OSGeo Live DVD.
• September 6-9, 2010 -- rasdaman has been presented at the ​Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G) 2010 in Barcelona, gaining substantial attention.
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Download, Installation, Documentation

Go to the Download page for instructions. The installation steps are described on the Install page. There is ample documentation, including query and programming examples.

Support

The ​Large-Scale Scientific Information Services research group at ​Jacobs University Bremen is the core development team. Feel free to contact us!

A dedicated research spin-off company, ​rasdaman GmbH, provides software enhancements, expert consultancy, participation in projects, and joint ventures on a commercial basis to foster widespread use of rasdaman.

Science

Interested in the scientific background? There is a ​host of publications available.

PS: Greetings to all ​rastafarians! wha'ppen, man?