A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data

Summary: SpatialHadoop adds native spatial data support, turning MapReduce into a spatial analytics platform. Shows order-of-magnitude speedups, a two-level spatial index, a compact spatial language, and core ops (range, kNN, join) on 60–300 GB data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10768
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 8.1167671e-05
Overall Rank: 2,794 | 80.84%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536283

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Authors

1. Ahmed Eldawy (University of Minnesota)
2. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)

BibTeX Citation

@article{eldawy_vldb13,
        title = {{A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data}},
        author = {Eldawy, Ahmed and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1230--1233},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536283},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536283},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,148	Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop	2015	VLDB	6.872045e-05
5,395	AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data	2015	VLDB	6.2331619e-05
6,382	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.8915267e-05
7,616	TAREEG: A MapReduce-Based Web Service for Extracting Spatial Data from OpenStreetMap	2014	SIGMOD	5.5811298e-05
7,794	Tornado: A Distributed Spatio-Textual Stream Processing System	2015	VLDB	5.5429908e-05
7,990	ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper]	2014	VLDB	5.5107935e-05
10,876	BLAEQ: A Multigrid Index for Spatial Query on Geometry Data	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,112	STORM: Spatio-Temporal Online Reasoning and Management of Large Spatio-Temporal Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,141	A Demonstration of AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,185	DGFIndex for Smart Grid: Enhancing Hive with a Cost-Effective Multidimensional Range Index	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,187	OceanST: A Distributed Analytic System for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Mobile Broadband Data	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
42	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00046170812
2,137	Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce	2012	VLDB	9.110238e-05

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