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= Welcome to rasdaman -- the World's Leading Array Database =

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_DBMS Array Databases]''' allow storing and querying massive multi-dimensional [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array arrays], such as '''sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data''' appearing in [wiki:ApplicationDomains domains] like '''earth, space, and life science'''.

rasdaman ("__ras__ter __da__ta __man__ager") is the leading array analytics engine [wiki:WhyRasdaman distinguished] by its flexibility, performance, and scalability. Rasdaman embeds itself smoothly into relational databases, but can also run standalone on the file system. In fact, rasdaman has pioneered Array Databases being the first fully implemented, operationally used system with an array query language and optimized processing engine with unprecedented scalability. Known rasdaman databases exceed 230 TB; with [http://www.earthserver.eu EarthServer], intercontinental fusion of Petabyte datacubes is being established.

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'''Next-Generation Geo Raster Server'''. Rasdaman is brought to you by the guys writing the geo raster standards, including [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs OGC WCS] and [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCPS], the OGC raster query language. The [PetascopeUserGuide Petascope] component of rasdaman provides service interfaces based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC] [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs WCS], [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCPS], [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCS-T], and [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps/ WPS]. For several of these, rasdaman will be reference implementation. Since April 2011, rasdaman is available on the [http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html OSGeo Live DVD] (a short [wiki:OSGeoLiveGetStarted get started guide]). Drivers are available for  integration with [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL], [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer], https://www.r-project.org/ R], and several more.

For the '''business value''' of rasdaman, see the [http://www.ohloh.net/p/rasdaman listing on OpenHub]. [http://www.earthlook.org EarthLook] is a demonstration site showcasing rasdaman in a variety of 1-D to 4-D geo use cases.

== News ==
 * 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!
 * [wiki:News more news...]

== Download, Installation, Documentation  ==

Go to the [wiki:Download Download page] for instructions. The installation steps are described on the [wiki:Install Install page]. There is ample [wiki:Documentation documentation], including query and programming examples (check out our [Workshops/BigDataRasdamanApproach tutorial] on spatio-temporal data with rasdaman too).

== Support ==

The [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Large-Scale Scientific Information Services research group] at [http://www.jacobs-university.de Jacobs University Bremen] is the core development team. Feel free to contact us!

A dedicated research spin-off company, [http://www.rasdaman.com rasdaman GmbH], provides software enhancements, expert consultancy, participation in projects, and joint ventures on a commercial basis to foster widespread use of rasdaman. 

See also the [wiki:Support support page].

== Science ==

Interested in the scientific background? There is a [http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~lsis/publications.php host of publications] available.

== PS: Greetings to all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement rastafarians]! ''wha'ppen, man?'' ==