GeoParquet and Iceberg vs. OGC API-Features

Ingo Simonis, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at #OGC, has published an article asking the question “Does #GeoParquet Replace OGC API-Features?”. The article positions GeoParquet (and #Apache #Iceberg) vis-à-vis OGC API-Features, the successor of WFS 2.0.
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Ralph Straumann

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July 6, 2025

Dividing the world between themselves? (source: Ingo Simonis)

Ingo Simonis, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at OGC, has published an article asking the question “Does GeoParquet Replace OGC API-Features?”. It’s an interesting short read that positions GeoParquet (and Apache Iceberg) vis-à-vis OGC API-Features (the successor of WFS 2.0):

In practice, you might store data as GeoParquet files managed through Apache Iceberg, performing large-scale analytics and incremental updates directly. Then, leverage OGC API-Features to serve dynamic spatial subsets, historical queries, or real-time integrations from Iceberg tables.

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