[SEDONA-454] Change the default value of sedona.global.indextype from quadtree to rtree

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.1
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kristin Cowalcijk
• Created: 21/Dec/23 15:23
• Updated: 13/Jan/24 23:56
• Resolved: 13/Jan/24 23:56

Description

Experiments showed that STRtree has better performance in most of cases, and does not have index efficiency problems when indexing points (see SEDONA-453). We consider changing the default value of sedona.global.indextype from quadtree to rtree to achieve better out-of-box performance when running spatial joins using SQL queries.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1159