Core Tech
Upgrades improve CARTO platform performance by > 20%
Following several upgrades to the CARTO platform we are pleased to announce significant performance & security improvements.
Introducing CARTOframes: A Python Interface for CARTO
CARTOframes allows data scientists to extract the power of CARTO without leaving their Python environment.
CARTO Core Team and 5x
We're in charge of the key open source components, and the first problem we've tackled is overall performance.
ETL into CARTO with ogr2ogr
Complex data loads can be automatated using the open source ogr2ogr tool.
Patching Plain PostgreSQL for Parallel PostGIS Plans
Stock PostgreSQL 10 can be improved for better PostGIS parallelism with a couple patches.
CARTO's Use of Foreign Data Wrappers
Very different databases can be linked using this PostgreSQL feature.
Academy
Meet CARTO at Mobile World Congress 2023
We're excited to be attending Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona! Join us to find out how we're helping Telco companies turn data into insight.











Calculating Routes at Scale using SQL on BigQuery
A guide to route optimization using Google BigQuery, a cloud-native & scalable alternative to PgRouting & Network Analyst.
Why use Data Warehouses for Geospatial Analysis
Why use BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift & Databricks for geospatial analysis? Explore with a real-life example.