[WD-42]

I’ve been out of the geo loop for a while. I’m struggling to understand why I’d use this over postgis. There used to be the argument that installing extensions was painful, but now that docker exists pulling the postgis image is just as easy as normal Postgres. And RDS has supported it for a while.

What am I missing? The api even looks the same.

[paleolimbot]

PostGIS is great when your data is already in a Postgres table! SedonaDB and DuckDB are much faster when your data starts elsewhere (e.g., GeoParquet files).

[MrPowers]

The "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade" post has a nice related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881468

[WD-42]

Oh I see. So if you have some kind of a pipeline in which you don’t need or want to load the data into a DB first. That makes total sense, thanks!