A geo-bounding box query allows you to specify a rectangular geographical area as a query condition. Tablestore returns the rows in which the value of the specified field falls within the rectangular geographical area.
Parameters
Parameter | Description |
fieldName | The name of the column that you want to query. The value of this parameter is of the GEOPOINT data type. |
topLeft | The coordinate pair of the upper-left corner of the rectangular geographic area. |
bottomRight | The coordinate pair of the lower-right corner of the rectangular geographic area. A rectangular geographic area can be specified by using an upper-left corner and a lower-right corner. The format is latitude,longitude . Valid values of latitude: [-90,+90] . Valid values of longitude: [-180,+180] . Example: 35.8,-45.91 . |
query | The query statement for the search index. Set this parameter to GeoBoundingBoxQuery. |
getTotalCount | Specifies whether to return the total number of rows that meet the query conditions. The default value of this parameter is false, which specifies that the total number of rows that meet the query conditions is not returned. If you set this parameter to true, the query performance is compromised. |
tableName | The name of the data table. |
indexName | The name of the search index. |
columnsToGet | Specifies whether to return all columns of each row that meets the query conditions. You can specify the returnAll and columns fields for this parameter. The default value of the returnAll field is false, which specifies that not all columns are returned. In this case, you can use the columns field to specify the columns that you want to return. If you do not specify the columns that you want to return, only the primary key columns are returned. If you set the returnAll field to true, all columns are returned. |
Methods
You can perform geo-bounding box queries by using the Tablestore console, Tablestore CLI, and Tablestore SDKs. Before perform geo-bounding box queries, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
You have an Alibaba Cloud account or a RAM user that has permissions to perform operations on Tablestore. For information about how to grant Tablestore operation permissions to a RAM user, see Use a RAM policy to grant permissions to a RAM user.
If you want to use Tablestore SDKs or the Tablestore CLI to perform a query, an AccessKey pair is created for your Alibaba Cloud account or RAM user. For more information, see Create an AccessKey pair.
A data table is created. For more information, see Operations on tables.
A search index is created for the data table. For more information, see Create a search index.
If you want to use Tablestore SDKs to perform a query, an OTSClient instance is initialized. For more information, see Initialize an OTSClient instance.
If you want to use the Tablestore CLI to perform a query, the Tablestore CLI is downloaded and started, and information about the instance that you want to access and the data table are configured. For more information, see Download the Tablestore CLI, Start the Tablestore CLI and configure access information, and Operations on data tables.
Use the Tablestore console
Go to the Indexes tab.
Log on to the Tablestore console.
In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.
On the Overview page, click the name of the instance that you want to manage or click Manage Instance in the Actions column of the instance.
On the Tables tab of the Instance Details tab, click the name of the data table or click Indexes in the Actions column of the data table.
On the Indexes tab, find the search index that you want to use to query data and click Manage Data in the Actions column.
In the Search dialog box, configure query parameters.
By default, the system returns all attribute columns. To return specific attribute columns, turn off All Columns and specify the attribute columns that you want to return. Separate multiple attribute columns with commas (,).
Note By default, the system returns all primary key columns of the data table.
Select the And, Or, or Not logical operator based on your business requirements.
If you select the And logical operator, data that meets the query conditions is returned. If you select the Or operator and specify a single query condition, data that meets the query condition is returned. If you select the Or logical operator and specify multiple query conditions, data that meets one of the query conditions is returned. If you select the Not logical operator, data that does not meet the query conditions is returned.
Select an index field of the GEOPOINT data type and click Add.
Set the query type of the index field to GeoBoundingBoxQuery and enter and select the coordinate pair of the upper-left corner and the coordinate pair of the lower-right corner of the rectangular geographic area.
By default, the sorting feature is disabled. If you want to sort the query results based on specific fields, turn on Sort and specify the fields based on which you want to sort the query results and the sorting order.
By default, the aggregation feature is disabled. If you want to collect statistics on a specific field, turn on Collect Statistics, specify the field based on which you want to collect statistics, and then configure the information that is required to collect statistics.
Click OK.
Data that meets the query conditions is displayed in the specified order on the Indexes tab.
Use the Tablestore CLI
You can use the Tablestore CLI to run the search
command to query data by using search indexes. For more information, see Search index.
Run the search
command to use the search_index search index to query data and return all indexed columns of each row that meets the query conditions.
search -n search_index --return_all_indexed
The following sample code shows how to enter the query conditions as prompted by the system:
{
"Offset": -1,
"Limit": 10,
"Collapse": null,
"Sort": null,
"GetTotalCount": true,
"Token": null,
"Query": {
"Name": "GeoBoundingBoxQuery",
"Query": {
"FieldName": "col_geopoint",
"TopLeft": "10,0",
"BottomRight": "0,10"
}
}
}
Use Tablestore SDKs
You can perform geo-bounding box queries by using Tablestore SDK for Java, Tablestore SDK for Go, Tablestore SDK for Python, Tablestore SDK for Node.js, Tablestore SDK for .NET and Tablestore SDK for PHP. In the following example, Tablestore SDK for Java is used to describe how to perform geo-bounding box queries.
The following sample code provides an example on how to query rows in which the value of the Col_GeoPoint column falls within the rectangular geographic area defined by the "10,0" upper-left corner and the "0,10" lower-right corner:
public static void geoBoundingBoxQuery(SyncClient client) {
SearchQuery searchQuery = new SearchQuery();
GeoBoundingBoxQuery geoBoundingBoxQuery = new GeoBoundingBoxQuery(); // Use GeoBoundingBoxQuery.
geoBoundingBoxQuery.setFieldName("Col_GeoPoint"); // Specify the name of the column that you want to query.
geoBoundingBoxQuery.setTopLeft("10,0"); // Specify the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the rectangular geographic area.
geoBoundingBoxQuery.setBottomRight("0,10"); // Specify the coordinates of the lower-right corner of the rectangular geographic area.
searchQuery.setQuery(geoBoundingBoxQuery);
//searchQuery.setGetTotalCount(true); // Set the GetTotalCount parameter to true to return the total number of rows that meet the query conditions.
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest("<TABLE_NAME>", "<SEARCH_INDEX_NAME>", searchQuery);
// You can use the columnsToGet parameter to specify the columns that you want to return or specify that all columns are returned. If you do not specify this parameter, only the primary key columns are returned.
//SearchRequest.ColumnsToGet columnsToGet = new SearchRequest.ColumnsToGet();
//columnsToGet.setReturnAll(true); // Specify that all columns are returned.
//columnsToGet.setColumns(Arrays.asList("ColName1","ColName2")); // Specify the columns that you want to return.
//searchRequest.setColumnsToGet(columnsToGet);
SearchResponse resp = client.search(searchRequest);
//System.out.println("TotalCount: " + resp.getTotalCount()); // Display the total number of rows that meet the query conditions instead of the number of rows that are returned.
System.out.println("Row: " + resp.getRows());
}
Billing rules
When you use a search index to query data, you are charged for the read throughput that is consumed. For more information, see Billable items of search indexes.
References
When you use a search index to query data, you can use the following query methods: term query, terms query, match all query, match query, match phrase query, prefix query, range query, wildcard query, fuzzy query, Boolean query, geo query, nested query, KNN vector query, and exists query. You can select query methods based on your business requirements to query data from multiple dimensions.
You can sort or paginate rows that meet the query conditions by using the sorting and paging features. For more information, see Perform sorting and paging.
You can use the collapse (distinct) feature to collapse the result set based on a specific column. This way, data of the specified type appears only once in the query results. For more information, see Collapse (distinct).
If you want to analyze data in a data table, you can use the aggregation feature of the Search operation or execute SQL statements. For example, you can obtain the minimum and maximum values, sum, and total number of rows. For more information, see Aggregation and SQL query.
If you want to obtain all rows that meet the query conditions without the need to sort the rows, you can call the ParallelScan and ComputeSplits operations to use the parallel scan feature. For more information, see Parallel scan.