[[TracNav(TOC)]] = rasdaman News = This is the archive of rasdaman news: == 2017 == * March 2017 -- the ISO SQL MDA (Multi-Dimensional Arrays) candidate standard is sent out for ballot, following months of hard work on the details == 2016 == * October 2016 -- the rasdaman team hosts an ISO meeting for finalizing the ISO SQL MDA (Multi-Dimensional Arrays) standards draft * September 2016 -- rasdaman presented at INSPIRE conference in Barcelona as official INSPIRE WCS Reference Implementation picked by the INSPIRE Drafting Team * July 2016 -- US CIO Review [http://bigdata.cioreview.com/vendor/2016/rasdaman picks rasdaman] into their [http://bigdata.cioreview.com/vendors/most-promising-bigdata-solution-providers-2016.html 100 Most Promising Big Data Technologies] * May 2016 -- after [http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeo six and a half years of deliberation], OSGeo finds out that rasdaman does not fit their "design by committee" doctrine, and both sides agree therefore that OSGeo is too narrow for accommodating rasdaman == 2015 == * October 2015 -- OGC adopted our WCS-T specification as a standard, which will tremendously ease coverage maintenance and coverage service mashups * October 2015 -- In Tokyo, the ISO SQL Working Group resolves that the SQL/MDA ("Multi-Dimensional Array") specification is to be rolled out for CD ballot; this specification is based on rasdaman and written by us * July 2015 -- following earlier prerelease, the stable version of [wiki:Versions rasdaman 9.1] is released now, with tons of improvements and new functionality * June 2015 -- !OpenHub attests rasdaman a "large team, in the top 10% of all project teams on Open Hub" * February 2015 -- Currently we are aware of 230 TB of rasdaman databases of atmosphere, ocean, land, and planetary science data. Let us know if you have another Big Data instance running! == 2014 == * December 2014 -- rasdaman 9.1 has been released, offering cool new features: new, dramatically faster communication protocol; builtin null / nodata value support; extended OGC support: WMS 1.3, WCS-T, overhauled WCPS, new sleek WCS client. * November 2014 -- in the final review of EU project [http://www.earthserver.eu EarthServer] (which has substantially supported rasdaman community development!) reviewers were impressed by all the achievements; among others, at the premises of the European Space Agency (ESA) a '''170 Terabyte rasdaman space/time database''' was built. * October 2014 -- [https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman/estimated_cost ohloh reports] that the rasdaman codebase now is worth more than 7 million US$. * September 2014 -- rasdaman is [http://www.copernicus-masters.com/index.php?kat=winners.html&anzeige=winner_t-systems2014.html winner of the Big Data Challenge] of the international [http://www.copernicus-masters.com/index.php?anzeige=home.html Copernicus Masters competition]. * June 2014 -- ISO SC32 WG3 (the SQL maintenance group) has agreed to establish an array extension to SQL, called MDA ("Multi-Dimensional Arrays"), based on the practice proven concepts of rasdaman. * March 2014 -- version 9.0.1 has been released improving some issues observed during large-scale migration ([wiki:Versions#Version9.0.x release notes]). * February 23, 2014 -- rasdaman 9.0 has been officially released, see [wiki:Versions#Version9.0.x full release notes]. * January 2014 -- several more specifications crafted by the rasdaman team get adopted as official standards: WCS Scaling Extension, WCS Interpolation Extension, WCS Earth Observation Application Profile. * December 16, 2013 -- the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard. * January 2014 -- several more specifications crafted by the rasdaman team get adopted as official standards: WCS Scaling Extension, WCS Interpolation Extension, WCS Earth Observation Application Profile. * December 16, 2013 -- the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard. * '''December 06, 2013 -- rasdaman is OGC's official Reference Implementation for WCS Core''': [[BR]][[BR]][[Image(rasdaman-wcs-core-RI.png, width=600)]][[BR]][[BR]] == 2013 == * December 16, 2013 -- the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard. * '''December 06, 2013 -- rasdaman is OGC's official Reference Implementation for WCS Core''': [[BR]][[BR]][[Image(rasdaman-wcs-core-RI.png, width=600)]][[BR]][[BR]] * April 11, 2013 -- rasdaman PI Peter Baumann gives keynote lecture "Data, Metadata - Who Cares?" at [http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/sessionprogramme/KL EGU General Assembly], Vienna * January 07, 2013 -- rasdaman becomes [http://geossregistries.info/geosspub/component_details_ns.jsp?compId=urn:geoss:csr:component:urn:uuid:464737db-c552-3523-aba7-d2f0891c309f GEOSS component] == 2012 == * November 23, 2012 -- rasdaman showcased at [http://www.earthobservations.org/geo9.shtml GEO IX Plenary] * October 18, 2012 -- rasdaman listed on [http://nosql-database.org/ nosql-database.org] * October 09-11, 2012 -- rasdaman part of OSGeo booth at [http://www.intergeo.de INTERGEO] * September 10, 2012 -- rasdaman presented at [http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2012/ XLDB 2012], Stanford * July 01, 2012 -- rasdaman is [http://www.ohloh.net/p/rasdaman listed on ohloh] * June, 2012 -- rasdaman is candidate reference implementation for WCS Core, being the first implementation to pass all conformance tests * April 15, 2012 -- rasdaman 8.3.1 passes the [http://www.opengeosptial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium] (OGC) [http://www.opengeosptial.org/standards/wcs Web Coverage Service] (WCS) 2.0 Core conformance test * January 30, 2012 -- rasdaman version 8.3.0 has been released, incorporating many fixes and enhancements * November 22, 2011 -- rasdaman has now been accepted into OSGeo Incubation; many thanks to our mentor, Bruce Bannermann (Australian Bureau of Meteorology), for his wise guidance and support! * November 16, 2011 -- rasdaman is presented to the GEOSS Community during the [http://www.earthobservations.org/geo8.shtml GEO VIII Annual Meeting] in Istanbul. * November, 2011 -- Stephan Meissl, [http://www.eox.com EOX GmbH] Austria, is new committer. He has been contributing substantially in particular wrt. [http://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL], and rasdaman VM issues. * September, 2011 -- the [http://www.earthserver.eu 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 [http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html OSGeo Live DVD]. * 2010-09-27..29 Rasdaman will be [http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=3139 presented] at the [http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/event/ict/2010/ ICT 2010 Brussels Expo]. * 2010-09-06..09 Rasdaman will be presented at the [http://2010.foss4g.org Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference] (FOSSGIS) 2010 in Barcelona. * 2010-09-03 the GDAL driver code, allowing GDAL to use rasdaman as another storage format, has been approved by GDAL and is in [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/frmts/rasdaman their repository] now. * 2010-08-17 the GDAL driver code, allowing GDAL to use rasdaman as another storage format, has been submitted to GDAL and is under review there now. * 2010-08-02 A first version of the GDAL driver for rasdaman has been completed and tested. Now we will proceed making it available. * 2010-09-06 Rasdaman will be presented at the [http://2010.foss4g.org Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference] (FOSSGIS) 2010 in Barcelona. * 2010-08-02 A first version of the GDAL driver has been completed and tested. Now we will proceed making it available. * 2010-jul-14 A hot summer indeed - we have launched a project to add NetCDF support to rasdaman. * 2010-jul-05 A project has started to link rasdaman into GDAL. This coupling of two powerful tools will open up new vistas, among them pairing MapServer with rasdaman. * 2010-jun-19 Petascope, the rasdaman OGC service frontend which has had its own domain, www.petascope.org, is now an integrated component of rasdaman (see petascope/ directory in the source tree and the [wiki:PetascopeOld redirection page]). '''2010-apr-05''' * The rasdaman community project officially applies for [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo] incubation. '''2010-mar-28''' * The rasdaman community project starts getting investigated by [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo] for possible incubation. '''2009-aug-13''' * version 8.1.0 released, containing remedies for several hickups; use of version 8.0.0 is not encouraged. '''2009-jul-26''' * include directory is now generated by "make install", allowing simpler linking of applications '''2009-jun-15''' * as git on our vm continues to make trouble, we've uploaded an addendum library meantime '''2009-may-12''' * website completely opened, including code of rasdaman 8.0.0 '''2009-mar-26''' * Wiki structure created