Venus: Scalable Real-Time Spatial Queries on Microblogs with Adaptive Load Shedding

Microblogging services have become among the most popular services on the web in the last few years. This led to significant increase in data size, speed, and applications. This paper presents Venus; a system that supports real-time spatial queries on microblogs. Venus supports its queries on a spatial boundary $R$ and a temporal boundary $T$ , from which only the top- $k$ microblogs are returne...