Geospatial extensions to any Hadoop based database?

[tim robertson <ti...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any work on geospatial extensions for any of the
databases built on hadoop technology (Hive, HBase, Cloudbase etc)?

I have done ad hoc stuff
(http://biodivertido.blogspot.com/2008/11/reproducing-spatial-joins-using-hadoop.html)
for points falling in polygons using native Hadoop but would like to
do it using a higher level join.

I am interested in developing at least a basic RTree index and
implementing the join using JTS and GeoTools but before starting
thought it worth asking if anyone else is also looking into it.

Surely there is a decent demand to do latitude / longitude falling in
polygons of states, countries, areas etc for locality specific data
mining?

Cheers,
Tim