2025-11-04 –, Lake Audubon
Apache Iceberg geometry/geography adds native geospatial support, enabling advanced spatial data management with features like transactions and time travel. A demo will illustrate how Iceberg geo support helps spatial data manipulation using Sedona and Spark.
This talk explores Apache Iceberg's new native geospatial support (Iceberg Geo), tackling challenges in large-scale spatial data management. It covers Iceberg Geo's development, design, and goals, highlighting its impact on both geospatial and Iceberg communities. For geospatial users, it brings transactions, time travel, and schema evolution for spatial data. For Iceberg, it expands its use to complex spatial analytics. A live demo with Sedona and Spark will showcase geospatial data manipulation and querying. Future plans include enhancing Iceberg Geo and unifying geospatial/non-geospatial data processing. The session offers a deep dive into Iceberg Geo's capabilities and roadmap, emphasizing its role in advancing geospatial data management.
Matthew Powers is a Staff Developer Advocate at Wherobots, where he champions Sedona and Iceberg. He develops open source libraries and writes blogs about open source technologies.