Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Tutorial Links
HIPI is still a fairly new technology; the best source of information at the moment is
this
Example Code
A number of examples of HIPI usage can be found on the project's
official examples page
.
SpatialHadoop
License
Unknown
Activity
High
Purpose
Spatial Analytics
Official Page
Hadoop Integration API Compatible
If you've been doing much work with spatial data, it's likely you're familiar with PostGIS,
the open source spatial extension to the open source PostgreSQL database. But what if you
want to work in a massively Hadoop environment rather than PostgreSQL? The University
of Minnesota's computer science department has developed SpatialHadoop, which is an open
source extension to MapReduce designed to process huge datasets of spatial data in Hadoop.
To use SpatialHadoop, you first load data into HDFS and then build a spatial index. Once
you index the data, you can execute any of the spatial operations provided in SpatialHadoop
such as range query,
k
-nearest neighbor, and spatial join.
