AbstractIn a cloud environment, resources should be acquired quickly and automatically released at runtime. Traditional trajectory data partitions, indexing and query processing techniques are extended, so that they can take advantage of the cloud of large clusters of highly parallel processing capabilities. There are ways with trajectory data in the cloud database query processing. The advanced sensing techniques available today caused the existence of many types of trajectory datasets whose study can form a strong basis for decision making regarding a data context. Trajectory data generally includes trajectory classification, trajectory clustering, and trajectory associations and so on. All these tools need trajectory similarity measures to get comparisons in trajectory data. Some of the popular existing methods of trajectory similarity include Euclidean distance, semantic distance and there near variants. Each variant of these techniques exhibits notable differences in measurement of similarity and computational difficulty. This paper targeted to deal with this situation with the goal of lower computational efforts in trajectory similarity computations. A two‐phase trajectory similarity measure is defined. The first phase does point level analysis of trajectory points representing all trajectories and the following phase use the analysis to find the similarities. Using a hybrid similarity framework, new means for trajectory clustering and trajectory query processing are developed. From trajectory analysis followed by trajectory clustering, evaluation of cluster quality and processing of trajectory query are undertaken in this paper in different ways from the existing methods. All the proposed developments are tested with trajectory datasets with multiple attributes and the results are more favour to proposed framework than the existing ones.