ILX: Intelligent "Location+X" Data Systems (Vision Paper)

Understand

Due to the ubiquity of mobile phones and location-detection devices, location data is being generated in very large volumes.

• Queries and operations that are performed on location data warrant the use of database systems.
• Despite that, location data is being supported in data systems as an afterthought.
• Typically, relational or NoSQL data systems that are mostly designed with non-location data in mind get extended with spatial or spatiotemporal indexes, some query operators, and higher level syntactic sugar in order to support location data.