Nearby drivers query
Your task
Design a 'nearby drivers' query service where both the queried set (drivers) and the queriers (riders) are constantly moving. A rider opening the app needs the ~20 nearest available drivers, ranked by ETA not raw distance, returned in <50ms, while 300k drivers update their location every 4 seconds. Unlike a static POI search, the index is being rewritten constantly. Describe the dynamic spatial index, how you serve k-NN under continuous churn, how you rank by ETA, and the consistency trade-off between index freshness and query latency.
It covers
- Moving objects
- Knn
- Dynamic index