GeoRocket 1.1.0

I’m happy to an­nounce that we just re­leased the new ver­sion 1.1.0 of GeoR­ocket OSS. GeoR­ocket is a high-per­form­ance data store for geo­spa­tial files that we de­velop at the Fraunhofer In­sti­tute for Com­puter Graph­ics Re­search IGD in Darm­stadt, Ger­many. It can store GeoJSON files, 3D city mod­els (e.g. CityGML), GML files or any other XML-based geo­spa­tial data sets. GeoR­ocket provides the fol­low­ing fea­tures:

• High per­form­ance data stor­age with mul­tiple back-ends such as Amazon S3, Mon­goDB, dis­trib­uted file sys­tems (e.g. HDFS or Ceph), or your local hard drive (en­abled by de­fault)
• Sup­port for high-speed search fea­tures based on the pop­u­lar Open-Source frame­work Elast­ic­search. You can per­form spa­tial quer­ies and search for at­trib­utes, lay­ers and tags.
• GeoR­ocket is made for the Cloud. Based on the Open-Source toolkit Vert.x it is re­act­ive and can handle big files and a large num­ber of par­al­lel re­quests.
• GeoR­ocket ex­ists in two edi­tions—​an Open-Source ver­sion and a Pro edi­tion for en­ter­prise ap­plic­a­tions

New features

The new ver­sion in­tro­duces a num­ber of use­ful fea­tures:

• We’ve ad­ded prop­er­ties, which are user-defined key-value pairs that can be at­tached to chunks
• Tags at­tached to ex­ist­ing chunks can now be mod­i­fied
• We’ve ex­ten­ded the query lan­guage and ad­ded new com­par­ison op­er­at­ors: EQ (equals), LT (less than), GT (greater than), LTE (less or equal), and GTE (greater or equal). These op­er­at­ors are par­tic­u­larly use­ful to for­mu­late quer­ies based on the new prop­er­ties.
• The HTTP in­ter­face was ex­ten­ded and now provides bet­ter er­ror re­port­ing
• It is now pos­sible to set the de­fault co­ordin­ate ref­er­ence sys­tem (CRS) for quer­ies
• We’ve ad­ded the pos­sib­il­ity to spe­cify a co­ordin­ate ref­er­ence sys­tem (CRS) within a single query
• Sup­port for UTF-8 en­coded chunks has been im­proved
• It is now pos­sible to over­ride con­fig­ur­a­tion val­ues with en­vir­on­ment vari­ables. This is use­ful when us­ing the of­fi­cial GeoR­ocket Docker im­age.
• We’ve worked hard to im­prove the over­all per­form­ance, us­ab­il­ity, and sta­bil­ity.

Read the full an­nounce­ment on the GeoR­ocket web­site.

More information

For a com­plete list of fea­tures visit our web­site. You will also find a user doc­u­ment­a­tion and other in­form­a­tion.

If you have ques­tions, ideas or com­ments re­gard­ing GeoR­ocket or any of our other ser­vices feel free to con­tact us.