Geospatial Analytics for Databricks Run spatial analytics on your Databricks data at up to 20x faster speeds and up to 60% lower cost, without moving a single record or breaking governance. Wherobots is a spatial analytics engine built specifically for physical world data. It connects directly to Databricks Unity Catalog, so your data stays where it is and your governance policies stay intact. Your team gets 300+ spatial SQL, Python, and Scala functions and raster and vector processing in a single engine. Start for Free Request a Demo What Databricks TeamsCan Do With Wherobots Your Unity Catalog Governance Stays Intact Wherobots connects to Unity Catalog using a Databricks service principal with OAuth or PAT token authentication. Your existing access controls, table permissions, and data lineage all carry over. You are not creating a parallel governance environment or copying data into a new system. Learn More Read Delta and Iceberg Tables, Write Results Back, No Migration Required Wherobots reads directly from Delta and Iceberg tables governed by Unity Catalog and writes results back to Wherobots Data Hub or Unity Catalog. Your data pipeline stays in place. There is no ETL step to move data into a separate spatial environment before you can query it. Learn More Up to 20x better performance, unlimited scale, at 1/n the cost WherobotsDB is a Spark and Apache Sedona compatible engine with query planner optimizations built specifically for spatial workloads. Overture Maps redirected existing Apache Sedona jobs to WherobotsDB with no code changes and processed 2.6 billion building geometries up to 20x faster. GeoPostcodes cut processing time from 39 days to under one day. Learn More One Engine for Vector, Raster, and Tabular Data Most spatial tools handle either vector data or raster imagery, not both. Wherobots processes vector geometries, satellite and drone raster imagery, and structured tabular data in a single engine using 300+ spatial SQL functions. That means your team can run a join across parcel boundaries, satellite imagery, and a CSV of customer records without moving data between tools. Learn More Run Computer Vision Models on Satellite and Drone Imagery Wherobots runs pretrained and custom computer vision models directly against geospatial imagery datasets, from local coverage to continental scale. Teams have used it to detect airplanes in satellite imagery for $2.50 and to process millions of fleet-derived traffic signs for automated map updates. No separate ML infrastructure required. Learn More Build in SQL, Python, or Scala, No New Toolchain Required Wherobots supports spatial SQL, Python, and Scala through the same notebook and API interfaces your team already uses. If you have existing Apache Sedona jobs, they run on WherobotsDB without code changes. You add spatial capability to your stack without adding a new tool to learn or maintain. Learn More “Overture’s 2.6B-building dataset now runs up to 20x faster on Wherobots, with a simple code redirect that kept Sedona compatibility and made our team more productive.” Jennings Anderson Software Engineer with Meta for Overture “With Wherobots on AWS, we can now scale to millions of acres reliably and cost-effectively—delivering faster results and more value to our customers.” G. Bailey Stockdale CEO Leaf Agriculture “With Apache Sedona, we process millions of fleet-derived traffic signs, using scalable spatial joins and partitioning to automate map updates—enhancing Amazon Last Mile’s delivery networks for faster, more reliable routing.” Arka Pratim Das Sr. Manager, Software Development, Amazon Maps “Getting data, algorithms, and compute in one place with Spark/Sedona notebooks is a huge boost—powerful like Earth Engine, but with the control developers need to get jobs done.” John Powell Sr. Geospatial Data Engineer, AddressCloud “39 days of processing reduced to <1 day—delivering faster, more accurate population insights to our logistics and supply chain customers worldwide.” Jerome Urbain Head of Products at GeoPostcodes Built On Apache Sedona, Trusted by Fortune 500 Companies Use cases Spatial Analytics Use CasesBuilt for Scale Spatial Joins on Millions of Records for Under 50 Cents Perform spatial joins on millions of records for less than 50¢ DO IT NOW GPS Map Matching at Scale Match GPS points to roads for millions of records with no APIs DO IT NOW Detect Airplanes from Satellite Imagery with AI Use text prompts and AI to find airplanes in satellie imagery for $2.50 DO IT NOW Frequently Asked Questions Does Wherobots work with Databricks Unity Catalog? Yes. Wherobots connects directly to Databricks Unity Catalog so you can read from and write to your existing Iceberg or Delta tables without moving data or creating a parallel governance environment. Your existing access controls and data governance policies stay intact. Do I need to migrate my data to use Wherobots with Databricks? No. Wherobots uses data federation to query your data in place inside Unity Catalog. There is no data copy and no migration required before you can run spatial queries. Can I run my existing Apache Sedona jobs on Wherobots without rewriting them? Yes. WherobotsDB is fully compatible with Apache Sedona and Spark. You can redirect existing jobs to run on WherobotsDB with zero code changes and immediately gain performance and cost improvements. How much faster is Wherobots than other managed Spark engines? Wherobots customers self-report 5x to 20x faster spatial query performance compared to other managed Spark engines and leading data platforms. Overture Maps processed 2.6 billion building geometries up to 20x faster after redirecting existing Apache Sedona jobs to WherobotsDB with no code changes. What spatial data formats does Wherobots support? Wherobots supports raster formats including GeoTIFF, Zarr, and NetCDF for satellite and sensor data, and vector formats including GeoParquet, Shapefiles, and GeoJSON for spatial geometries. Both data types are processable alongside standard tabular data in a single engine. Is Wherobots available on AWS? Yes. Wherobots is available on AWS and on the AWS Marketplace. Enterprise customers can also run Wherobots in their own AWS VPC for maximum data control and security compliance. Try the Spatial Intelligence Cloud Or join the community to discuss with other members and experts. TRY NOW JOIN COMMUNITY
