topic Re: Apache Sedona Database Support from ArcGIS Pro in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Apache Sedona Database Support from ArcGIS Pro

VenkataKondepati — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:55:09 GMT

Hi All,

Anyone tried to use Apache Sedona from ArcGIS Pro to store and read spatial data?

Regards,

Venkat

Re: Apache Sedona Database Support from ArcGIS Pro

AyanPalit — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:31:44 GMT

@VenkataKondepati

Enterprise geodatabases are supported in the following relational database management systems:

IBM Db2
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
PostgreSQL
SAP HANA

While there is no documentation of supporting Apache Sedona, innovators are always welcome to tinker and test. It will be interesting to hear other responses on your inquiry!

Re: Apache Sedona Database Support from ArcGIS Pro

VenkataKondepati — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:25:50 GMT

Hi @AyanPalit,

Thanks for your response.

I’ve been reviewing Wherobots, which is built on top of Apache Sedona to enable big data processing for GIS datasets using Spark. Its capabilities around Spatial ETL, Analytics, and GeoAI look promising, particularly in the context of handling large-scale geospatial workloads.

My main interest is in exploring how we can delegate heavy GIS workloads to Spark-style clusters for faster processing.

I’m already familiar with ArcGIS Notebooks, and while they allow Data Scientists to work with ArcGIS data, I ran into limitations when trying to access and process very large volumes of data directly.

What I’d like to understand better is:

How can these developments (e.g., Sedona/Wherobots) be integrated into the ArcGIS ecosystem?
Is there a way to make them work side by side without having to constantly move large datasets between systems?

Since data sizes are massive, minimizing duplication and movement is key.

I’d love to hear from other community members: Have you tried similar approaches? What are your use cases, challenges, or integration patterns between Spark-based geospatial frameworks and ArcGIS?

Regards,

Venkat