I see mention for spatial functional in HBase. For example "HBaseSpatial: A Scalable Spatial Data Storage Based on HBase".
What spatial functionality does HBase support and where is this documented?
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I see mention for spatial functional in HBase. For example "HBaseSpatial: A Scalable Spatial Data Storage Based on HBase".
What spatial functionality does HBase support and where is this documented?
Best Answer
HBase is simply a non-relational database that runs on HDFS which is essentially a filesystem abstraction layer on top of Hadoop which is map-reduce framework.
So the breakdown is like this,
Moreover, HBase doesn't support data types,
So If you want to store GIS objects you would simply ignore HBase and use the underlying Hadoop MapReduce framework with Spatial Hadoop.
HBaseSpatial is just a dead research project. There are millions of them. It's quite possible the source code was never published. The only entry on GitHub for it is here. That's from the author of the paper too, Ningyu Zhang