Learned Spatial Data Partitioning

Due to the significant increase in the size of spatial data, it is essential to use distributed parallel processing systems to efficiently analyze spatial data. In this paper, we first study learned spatial data partitioning, which effectively assigns groups of big spatial data to computers based on locations of data by using machine learning techniques. We formalize spatial data partitioning in the context of reinforcement learning and develop a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm. Our learning algorithm leverages features of spatial data partitioning and prunes ineffective learning processes to find optimal partitions efficiently. Our experimental study, which uses Apache Sedona and real-world spatial data, demonstrates that our method efficiently finds partitions for accelerating distance join queries and reduces the workload run time by up to 59.4%.