TileDB is an excellent fit for geospatial applications, as it stores the data in multi-dimensional dense or sparse arrays, and unifies all spatial and temporal information in a single, intuitive, and efficiently sliceable way. TileDB eliminates the data management pains, while offering excellent cloud-optimized writing/reading performance. It is an open-source, embeddable library written in C / C++ that eliminates the need for an additional catalog service. It supports updates natively, and employs fast spatial indexing (such as R-Trees for its tiles).