How We Built Scalable Spatial Data & Spatial Indexing in CockroachDB
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on Dec 9, 2020
Support for spatial data and spatial indexing is one of the most requested features in the history of CockroachDB. The first issue requesting spatial data in CockroachDB was opened in October 2017, and closed on November 12, 2020 with the release of spatial data storage in CockroachDB 20.2.
Spatial data, sometimes called geospatial data, is data that contains information about geographic (and geometric) features, with PostGIS being one of the most popular spatial data extensions in use. CockroachDB’s spatial data storage and processing features are compatible with PostGIS, while also providing the scale and resilience of CockroachDB.