--- title: Databend Feb–Mar Bimonthly Report: Continuous Data... description: Databend's February–March 2026 bimonthly release recap covers 18 nightly and 2 patch versions spanning v1.2.874-nightly to v1.2.891-nightly. Highlights include... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/databend-feb-mar-bimonthly-report-continuous-data-development-to-enhanced-gis-capabilities-uo5gyiyhk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Databend Feb–Mar Bimonthly Report: Continuous Data Development to Enhanced GIS Capabilities | daily.dev og:description: Databend's February–March 2026 bimonthly release recap covers 18 nightly and 2 patch versions spanning v1.2.874-nightly to v1.2.891-nightly. Highlights include... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/databend-feb-mar-bimonthly-report-continuous-data-development-to-enhanced-gis-capabilities-uo5gyiyhk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UO5GyIYHk.png og:image:alt: Databend Feb–Mar Bimonthly Report: Continuous Data Development to Enhanced GIS Capabilities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Databend Feb–Mar Bimonthly Report: Continuous Data Development to Enhanced GIS Capabilities **[Databend Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/databend)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Databend's February–March 2026 bimonthly release recap covers 18 nightly and 2 patch versions spanning v1.2.874-nightly to v1.2.891-nightly. Highlights include Sandbox UDF and Geography Functions expanding SQL expressiveness, R-Tree Spatial Index and Spatial Join landing for geospatial analysis, CSV/TSV formats converging into a unified TEXT format, COPY INTO support for PARTITION BY Parquet export and native Lance dataset export, EXPLAIN PERF for per-plan hardware counters, Meta architecture cleanup with KV compression, and numerous stability fixes. Also covered are bendsql 0.33.5/0.33.6 releases and driver updates for Go, JDBC, and SQLAlchemy clients. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I export query results from Databend as a Lance dataset? Use COPY INTO with FILE_FORMAT = (TYPE = LANCE) to export results directly as a Lance dataset, added in the March 2026 release cycle. A Lance dataset is a complete directory rather than a single file; by default Databend creates a subdirectory named after the query_id, or you can set USE_RAW_PATH = TRUE to write directly to the target path. Note that Lance export currently does not support combination with PARTITION BY. _Teams evaluating data delivery formats can track Databend's export capabilities as they evolve on daily.dev._ ### Does Databend support partitioned Parquet export to object storage? Yes, Databend supports COPY INTO with PARTITION BY to deliver Parquet files partitioned by SQL expressions, such as date and hour. This lets partition directory paths like date=2026-03-01/hour=08/ be fully controlled by the query itself, removing the need for downstream jobs to perform an extra partition rewrite step. _Developers building data delivery pipelines can follow format and export changes like this on daily.dev._ ### What is R-Tree Spatial Index in Databend and when was it added? R-Tree Spatial Index is a geospatial indexing capability formally introduced in Databend in March 2026, building on Geography Functions laid down in February. It works alongside new Spatial Statistics added to BlockMeta for geospatial range pruning, and Spatial Join support in Runtime Filter, integrating spatial indexes directly into query optimization and execution. _Engineers adding geospatial querying to their stack can follow database feature rollouts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Geospatial Unbounded: Spatial SQL GA with AI/BI Maps, Delta Sharing, and Iceberg v3](https://daily.dev/posts/geospatial-unbounded-spatial-sql-ga-with-ai-bi-maps-delta-sharing-and-iceberg-v3-ta19gry1t) · databricks · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [February 2026 newsletter](https://daily.dev/posts/february-2026-newsletter-2mlovotyq) · ClickHouse · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new with Google Data Cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-with-google-data-cloud-d1pt7f0q9) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing DuckDB 1.5.0](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-duckdb-1-5-0-3oljixkez) · DuckDB · 54 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#data-warehouse](https://daily.dev/tags/data-warehouse), [#gis](https://daily.dev/tags/gis) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/databend-feb-mar-bimonthly-report-continuous-data-development-to-enhanced-gis-capabilities-uo5gyiyhk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Databend Feb–Mar Bimonthly Report: Continuous Data Development to Enhanced GIS Capabilities","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/databend-feb-mar-bimonthly-report-continuous-data-development-to-enhanced-gis-capabilities-uo5gyiyhk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/databend-feb-mar-bimonthly-report-continuous-data-development-to-enhanced-gis-capabilities-uo5gyiyhk"},"datePublished":"2026-08-16T08:53:50.227Z","dateModified":"2026-08-16T08:57:23.247Z","description":"Databend's February–March 2026 bimonthly release recap covers 18 nightly and 2 patch versions spanning v1.2.874-nightly to v1.2.891-nightly. 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