Dynamic storage balancing in a distributed spatial index

  • Authors:
  • Cédric du Mouza;Witold Litwin;Philippe Rigaux

  • Affiliations:
  • CNAM, Paris, France;Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France;Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a general framework to index very large datasets of spatial data in a distributed system. Our proposal is built on the recently proposed Scalable Distributed Rtree (SD-Rtree) [4] and addresses specifically the server allocation problem. In SD-Rtree, a new server is assigned to the network whenever a split of a full node is required. We describe a more flexible allocation protocol which copes with a temporary shortage of storage resources. Our algorithm is especially based on k-NN query processing we introduce as well. We analyze the cost of this protocol, describe its features, and propose practical hints to use it. We also present experiments validating our approach.