Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop
Summary: SpatialHadoop extends MapReduce with a global spatial index, enabling distributed partitioning that speeds up range and spatial-join queries. Seven partitioning methods, 1% samples suffice; partition-area tracks join-index quality to guide choice. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ahmed Eldawy (University of Minnesota)
- 2. Louai Alarabi (University of Minnesota)
- 3. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)
BibTeX Citation
@article{eldawy_vldb15,
title = {{Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop}},
author = {Eldawy, Ahmed and Alarabi, Louai and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824057},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824057},
year = {2015}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,178 | Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00011632691 |
| 2,764 | How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems? | 2018 | VLDB | 8.0440088e-05 |
| 3,406 | Native Store Extension for SAP HANA | 2019 | VLDB | 7.3281944e-05 |
| 3,755 | Parallel Algorithms for Constructing Range and Nearest-Neighbor Searching Data Structures | 2016 | PODS | 7.0452836e-05 |
| 5,526 | AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data | 2015 | VLDB | 6.0937354e-05 |
| 7,519 | Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 5.502959e-05 |
| 8,804 | SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2732683e-05 |
| 8,809 | Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics | 2022 | VLDB | 5.2724071e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.0011405675 |
| 2,858 | A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data | 2013 | VLDB | 7.9354625e-05 |
| 4,956 | TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning | 2013 | SIGMOD | 6.340462e-05 |
| 6,418 | Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations | 1994 | VLDB | 5.7907247e-05 |
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