Welcome to rasdaman!

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.

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

September, 2011 -- the EarthServer projecct 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 27-29, 2010 -- rasdaman will be presented at the ICT 2010 Brussels Expo. 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. September 03, 2010 -- the GDAL driver code, allowing GDAL to use rasdaman as another storage format, has been approved by GDAL and is in their repository now. more news...

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?