Sindbad: a location-based social networking system

This demo presents Sindbad; a location-based social networking system. Sindbad supports three new services beyond traditional social networking services, namely, location-aware news feed, location-aware recommender, and location-aware ranking. These new services not only consider social relevance for its users, but they also consider spatial relevance. Since location-aware social networking systems have to deal with large number of users, large number of messages, and user mobility, efficiency and scalability are important issues. To this end, Sindbad encapsulates its three main services inside the query processing engine of PostgreSQL. Usage and internal functionality of Sindbad, implemented with PostgreSQL and Google Maps API, are demonstrated through user (i.e., web/phone) and system analyzer GUI interfaces, respectively. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.2.8 [Database Applications]: Spatial databases and GIS General Terms Design, Management, Performance, Algorithms Keywords So...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao 0003, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel
• Keywords: Database, Google Maps, Internal Functionality, SIGMOD 2012, Social Relevance