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Oct 22, 2025 1 hr 22 min

Apache Sedona and SedonaDB in Microsoft Fabric

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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 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.

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