Why geohash grids create hot shards
A step-by-step account of how uniform spatial grids fail on non-uniform populations, why quadtrees fail differently, and the three production fixes.
A step-by-step account of how uniform spatial grids fail on non-uniform populations, why quadtrees fail differently, and the three production fixes.
Why uniform grids create hot shards, H3 and S2 hierarchical indexes, multi-attribute filtering with inverted indexes, boundary queries, and swapping a spatial index with zero downtime.