TIME STAMPS
0:00 - Motivation for Microsoft to compete with Esri
1:20 - Who is Rakesh and data engineering services of SketchMyView
6:40 - Deploying a land and planning GIS for the UK government with Microsoft Synapse
22:25 - Is there a similarity between Synapse and Fabric?
26:26 - ACID compliance, delta files, lakehouses, bronze, silver, gold layers
35:18 - Apache Sedona in Fabric tutorial
57:20 - Why is it worth it to use Apache Sedona in Fabric?
1:00:44 - SedonaDB
CLIPS
No More Esri Tax: Open Geospatial Alternatives:
Is Microsoft the Next GIS Powerhouse?
The Wild World of Geospatial Complexity:
How Delta Lake Prevents Data Catastrophes:
EPISODE
Apache Sedona is a way for a regular Apache Spark using data analyst to acquire geospatial capabilities. With Sedona, if you know SQL, you know GIS:
Rakesh Gupta is Principal Consultant at SketchMyView in London. He tells us about how to set up Apache Sedona in Microsoft Fabric in 2 lines of code. It was a privilege to have his time for this tutorial as he showed how easy it is to get up and running with a powerful, free spatial analysis system that leverages Apache Spark for scalable compute. He also touched in the new SedonaDB, released last month:
This is a significant development for the geospatial economy because it is a database created with geospatial data as a first class citizen. This means we have our own database library that is only a pip install away:
pip install “apache-sedona[db]”
Something to consider as a replacement for DuckDB. More here and here.
