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Magellan

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magellan.ghost.io· irregular· Inactive for over a year

A technical blog by the author of Magellan, a Spark SQL-based distributed engine for geospatial analytics. It explains how the library scales spatial joins and queries by leveraging Spark's Catalyst optimizer and Tungsten execution.

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Platform
Ghost
Frequency
Irregular
Latest issue
Aug 8, 2017
Language
English
Written for
Data engineers and developers doing scalable geospatial analytics on Spark
Tone
analytical
Tracked since
Oct 26, 2026

Website: https://magellan.ghost.io/