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bharat-spatial-engine

🇮🇳 High-Performance Geospatial Administrative Hierarchy & Proximity Query Engine for India's 650k+ Census Settlements (Java 21 Loom, 2D KD-Tree, 38k+ QPS).

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Details

External ID
1404682057
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
bharat-spatial-engine
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 4, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
15
Upvotes percentile
0.30
Tags
census-data, geospatial, high-throughput, india, java-21, kd-tree, reverse-geocoding, spatial-index, spatial-indexing, spring-boot, trigram-search, virtual-threads

Enrichment

Niche
environmental and geospatial analytics software
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Data infrastructure
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
geospatial query engine for india census settlements
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Achieving 38k+ QPS spatial queries across 650k nodes requires custom low-level geospatial data structures and concurrency tuning in Java Loom.

What it would actually take: The engine requires a low-latency Java 21 service using Virtual Threads (Project Loom) and custom in-memory spatial index data structures (such as balanced 2D KD-Trees or R* Trees) optimized for cache locality and garbage-collection-free queries. Building this requires specialized knowledge in computational geometry, spatial indexing algorithms, and high-concurrency JVM performance tuning, far outside the realm of casual vibe coding.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #20 of 31 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 252 days after the earliest competitor.

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