This is the documentation of rasdaman community, a free, open-source middleware extending standard relational database systems with the ability to efficiently query and manipulate multi-dimensional arrays of unlimited size. Such arrays are also called "raster data", "gridded data", etc. depending on the application domain.

  • If you want to set up rasdaman then you should consult the Installation and Administration Guide; best read in conjunction with the PostgreSQL External Products Guide.

  • Retrieval and manipulation of raster data is documented in the Query Language Guide (PDF). The visual query frontend, rview, is described in the rview guide (PDF).

  • For client API programming there is a C++ Development Guide (PDF) and Java Development Guide (PDF) together with documentation (HTML).

  • For those who wish to study the sources there is an HTML documentation of the complete system, API, and the PostgreSQL base DBMS interface

  • Finally, there is a list of error messages.


    • Rasdaman community is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Rasdaman community is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with rasdaman. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

    Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Baumann / rasdaman GmbH Germany.

    For more information see http://www.rasdaman.org or contact Peter Baumann via baumann ätt rasdaman dot com.