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Table 5 Comparison among popular Spatial DB Framework

From: A comparative study of big data use in Egyptian agriculture

Features

Hadoop-GIS

Spatial-Hadoop

Spatial-Spark

Geo-Spark

DataFrame API

No

No

No

Yes

In-memory processing

No

No

Yes

Yes

Spatial Partitioning

SATO

Multiple

Multiple

Multiple

Spatial Indexing

R-Tree

R-/Quad-Tree

R-Tree

R-/Quad-Tree

KNN query

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Query optimizer

No

No

No

Yes

Distance query

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Distance join

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Filter (Contains)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Filter (ContainedBy)

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Filter (Intersects)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Filter (WithinDistance)

Yes

Yes

Yes

No