GeoJinni is a spatial data management system built on Hadoop that provides built-in support for spatial data types, indexes, and operations. It includes a high-level spatial query language called Pigeon and uses spatial indexes like grid files and R-trees to efficiently process spatial queries and operations on large datasets distributed across clusters. GeoJinni allows users to analyze their spatial data efficiently by loading datasets into its system and expressing queries in a simple language.

1. University of Minnesota
GeoJinni
Spatial Data processing with Hadoop
http://spatialhadoop.cs.umn.edu/
@spatialhadoop
Ahmed Eldawy

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27. VGI Sensor networks
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Tons of Spatial data out there…
Smart phones Satellite Images
Medical data
Traffic data
Geotagged Microblogs
Geotagged pictures

28. GeoJinni
Website: http://spatialhadoop.cs.umn.edu/
Download source code, binary distribution, and instructions
Email us at: shadoop@cs.umn.edu
■ Released in March 2013; 75,000 downloads since then
Spatial language Built-in spatial data types
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Spatial Indexes Spatial Operations

29. User Programs
Pig
Latin
Hadoop
Java APIS
Job Monitoring and
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The Built-in Approach of GeoJinni
Spatial Modules
User Programs
Pig
Latin
Hadoop
Java APIS
Job Monitoring and
Scheduling
MapReduce
Runtime
Storage (HDFS)
(Spatial)
User Program
+
MapReduce
APIs
+
Job Monitoring
and Scheduling
+
MapReduce
Runtime
+
Storage
+
…
Scheduling
MapReduce
Runtime
Storage (HDFS)
Spatial
Language
Spatial
Operators
Early
Pruning
Spatial
Indexing
The On-top
Approach
From Scratch
Approach
The Built-in Approach
(GeoJinni)

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Spatial Data & Hadoop
Spatial Data Hadoop
points = LOAD ’points’ AS
(id:int, x:int, y:int);
result = FILTER points BY
x < xmax AND x >= xmin AND
y < ymax AND y >= ymin;
Takes 193 seconds
 GeoJinni
GeoJinni
points = LOAD ’points’ AS
(id:int, location:point);
result = FILTER points BY
IsOverlap(location, rectangle
(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax));
Finishes in 2 seconds

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GeoJinni Architecture
Applications: MNTG [SSTD’13, ICDE’14]
SHAHED [ICDE’15] – TAREEG [SIGMOD’14, SIGSPATIAL’14]
Spatio-temporal Hadoop
Language: Pigeon [ICDE’14]
Operations: Basic [VLDB’13] – CG_Hadoop [SIGSPATIAL’13]
Data Mining – Visualization [Under submission]
MapReduce: Spatial File Splitter – Spatial Record Reader
Indexing: Grid File – R-tree – R+-tree [ICDE’15]

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Language Layer: Pigeon
■ Extends Pig Latin with OGC-compliant primitives
 Spatial data types (e.g., Polygon)
 Basic operations (e.g., Area)
 Spatial predicates (e.g., Touches)
 Spatial analysis (e.g., Union)
 Spatial aggregate functions (e.g., Convex Hull)
cities = LOAD ’cities’
AS (city_id: int, city_geom);
City_area = FOREACH cities
GENERATE Area(city_geom) AS area;
A. Eldawy and M. F. Mokbel. Pigeon: A Spatial MapReduce Language. In ICDE, 2014

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Indexing Layer: R+-tree

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Indexing Layer: Grid File

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Non-indexed Heap File

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Range Query
SpatialFileSplitter
prunes blocks
outside the query
range
SpatialRecordReader
passes local indexes
to the map function
Map function selects
records in range

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CG_Hadoop
■ Make use of GeoJinni to speedup
computational geometry algorithms
 Polygon union, Skyline, Convex Hull,
Farthest/Closest Pair
■ Single machine implementation
 E.g., Skyline of 4 billion points takes three hours
■ Straight forward implementation in Hadoop
 Hadoop parallel execution
■ More efficient implementation
in GeoJinni
 Spatial indexing
 Early pruning
■ Free open source as part of GeoJinni
Single
Machine Hadoop
GeoJinni
29x
260x
1x

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Convex Hull
Find the minimal convex polygon that contains all points
Input Output

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Convex Hull in CG_Hadoop
Hadoop CG_Hadoop
Partition
Pruning
Local hull
Global hull

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Map rendering
■ Map rendering creates an image that represents the
data
■ Visualization is an international language
■ Can reveal patterns that are otherwise hard to spot
■ The visual system occupies about one third of the
human brain
210 LINESTRING (-2.3634904 51.3845649, -2.3634254 51.3843983, -
2.3631927 51.3838436) [highway#primary,ref#A4,name#Gay Street]
420 LINESTRING (-1.8230973 52.5541131, -1.8230368 52.5540756, -
1.8229324 52.5540109, -1.8227961 52.5539014, -1.8227365 52.5538461, -
1.8226952 52.5538058, -1.8226204 52.5537103, -1.8223988 52.5534041, -
1.8221814 52.5531498, -1.8218478 52.5528188, -1.8215581 52.5525626, -
1.8213525 52.5524042) [source#GPS
Survey,highway#residential,postal_code#B72,name#Moss
Drive,is_in#Sutton Coldfield,maxspeed#30,abutters#residential]
490 LINESTRING (-0.1896508 51.6456414, -0.1895803 51.6456036, -
0.1895245 51.645551, -0.1890055 51.6450801, -0.1887808 51.6448764, -
0.1885605 51.6446756, -0.1883084 51.6443753, -0.1875496 51.6433375, -
0.1864572 51.6415288, -0.1862165 51.6411939, -0.1859495 51.6406583, -
0.1858855 51.6405461) [lit#yes,surface#asphalt,maxspeed#30
mph,highway#residential,abutters#residential,name#Sherrards Way]
770 LINESTRING (-1.8184653 52.5723683, -1.8182353 52.5723576, -
…

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Smoothing
Input Buffer
Only
Buffer +
Merge

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Multi-level Image
■ Many images at
different zoom
levels
 Pan
 Zoom in/out
 Fly to
■ More details as
the zoom level
increases

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MNTG - World-wide traffic generator
for road networks
http://mntg.cs.umn.edu/
M. F. Mokbel, L. Alarabi, J. Bao, A. Eldawy, A. Magdy, M. Sarwat, E. Waytas, and S.
Yackel. MNTG: An Extensible Web-based Traffic Generator. In SSTD, 2013

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SHAHED – A tool for querying and
visualizing spatio-temporal satellite data
http://shahed.cs.umn.edu/
"SHAHED: A MapReduce-based System for Querying and Visualizing Spatio-temporal
Satellite Data“, Ahmed Eldawy et al, ICDE 2015

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World Temperature

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Smooth World Temperature

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World Heat Map on Google Earth

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TAREEG – Web-based extractor for
OpenStreetMap data using MapReduce
http://tareeg.net/
L. Alarabi, A. Eldawy, R. Alghamdi, and M. F. Mokbel. TAREEG: A MapReduce-Based
Web Service for Extracting Spatial Data from OpenStreetMap. In SIGMOD, 2014

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Extracted Road Network

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Analyze your spatial data efficiently
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Spatial high level language
Efficient Spatial Operations
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Spatial Indexes
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