Key concepts

There are a few concepts that are repeated throughout the different Analytics Toolbox modules and functions, and that are unique to geospatial analytics. In this section of our documentation you will find some articles to introduce you to some of those key concepts.

• Spatial Indexes: spatial indexes are systems that provide a relationship between geospatial data and a hierarchical grid system, represented by geospatial indexes. There are huge performance and scalability benefits of aggregating data using spatial indexes. The Analytics Toolbox for Databricks supports Quadbin via the quadbin module. Learn more about spatial indexes in the following subsection.