LocationSpark: A Distributed In-Memory Data Management System for Big Spatial Data
Summary: LocationSpark is a distributed in-memory spatial DB on Spark, offering range, kNN, spatio-textual queries, and spatial-join. Key ideas: skew-aware scheduling, plan-aware exec, spatial Bloom filters to cut cross-node traffic, and hot data flushing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Mingjie Tang
- 2. Yongyang Yu
- 3. Qutaibah M. Malluhi
- 4. Mourad Ouzzani
- 5. Walid G. Aref
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,189 | How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems? | 2018 | VLDB | 9.335684e-05 |
| 5,746 | Hu-Fu: Efficient and Secure Spatial Queries over Data Federation | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3420687e-05 |
| 7,021 | VRE: A Versatile, Robust, and Economical Trajectory Data System | 2022 | VLDB | 4.8581131e-05 |
| 7,925 | Architecting a Query Compiler for Spatial Workloads | 2020 | SIGMOD | 4.6153403e-05 |
| 10,507 | SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,188 | ST4ML: Machine Learning Oriented Spatio-Temporal Data Processing at Scale | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,602 | SSTD: A Distributed System on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data | 2020 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,805 | CarStream: An Industrial System of Big Data Processing for Internet-of-Vehicles | 2017 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00061639801 |
| 1,261 | Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00012989236 |
| 1,334 | SkewTune: Mitigating Skew in MapReduce Applications | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.0001250413 |
| 1,931 | Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00010040427 |
| 4,746 | An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory | 2013 | VLDB | 5.9571146e-05 |
| 5,790 | AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3269734e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,776 | Distributed Trajectory Similarity Search | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00010593716 |
| 5,790 | AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3269734e-05 |
| 7,925 | Architecting a Query Compiler for Spatial Workloads | 2020 | SIGMOD | 4.6153403e-05 |
| 8,709 | Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics | 2022 | VLDB | 4.4638829e-05 |
| 1,261 | Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00012989236 |
| 2,300 | A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data | 2013 | VLDB | 9.0677864e-05 |
| 9,019 | STAR: A Distributed Stream Warehouse System for Spatial Data | 2020 | SIGMOD | 4.4082606e-05 |
| 1,403 | Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00012176993 |
| 11,943 | A Demonstration of AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data | 2015 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 1,435 | Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00012004456 |