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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2021
Applicant:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/2282 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method including determining a database table for which a database index is to be created, wherein the database table comprises a spatial field for storing spatial data; acquiring, for the database table, a spatial filter condition comprising a spatial field ID; and generating, according to the spatial filter condition, a tree-structured spatial index for the database table, wherein a leaf node of the tree-structured spatial index stores therein spatial data meeting the spatial filter condition and its primary key ID. The efficiency of queries related to spatial data is thus enhanced.