The Location Intelligence SDK for Big Data version 5.2.1 contains the following new features.
Support in Databricks and EMR
This release has support on following platforms:
- Support for Databricks Runtime Version 15.4+ (latest version till date).
- Support for EMR Version 7.2.0+ (latest version till date).
New Drivers Exposed for Spatial Operations
In this release, we have exposed following spatial operations as drivers that can be directly executed through spark-submit command:
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Point-In-Polygon
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Search-Nearest
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Join-By-Distance
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Hexgon Generator
Note: These spatial operations can also be executed using both scala and python notebooks.
Hive Functions Migrated to Spark SQL
In this release, we have removed the support for Hive functions and have migrated all Hive functions to Spark SQL. These functions can be used seamlessly in your Databricks or Jupyter Notebooks in both scala and python.
For more information on SDK, see Location Intelligence SDK for Big Data User Guide.