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Indexing

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Big spatial data access methods; Indexing big spatial data

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Consider a set of n data objects O = {o 1, o 2, …, o n }. Each object is associated with a d-dimensional vector representing its coordinate in a d-dimensional space (\(d \in \mathbb {N_+}\)). Indexing such a set of data is to organize the data in a way that provides fast access to the data, for processing spatial queries such as point queries, range queries, kNN queries, spatial join queries, etc.

Overview

The rapid growth of location-based services (LBS) has accumulated a massive amount of spatial data such as user GPS coordinates, which calls for efficient indexing structures to provide fast access to such data. Typical applications of spatial data include digital mapping services and location-based social networks, where spatial queries are issued by users such as finding restaurants within 3 kilometers around Alice or finding other users within 300 meters around Alice. Spatial indices have been studied...

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Qi, J., Zhang, R. (2018). Indexing. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63962-8_217-1

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