Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop
Summary: SpatialHadoop extends MapReduce with a global spatial index, enabling distributed partitioning that speeds up range and spatial-join queries. Seven partitioning methods, 1% samples suffice; partition-area tracks join-index quality to guide choice. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Ahmed Eldawy
- 2. Louai Alarabi
- 3. Mohamed F. Mokbel
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,301 | Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00012702767 |
| 2,194 | How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems? | 2018 | VLDB | 9.3268219e-05 |
| 3,907 | Native Store Extension for SAP HANA | 2019 | VLDB | 6.6384027e-05 |
| 4,026 | Parallel Algorithms for Constructing Range and Nearest-Neighbor Searching Data Structures | 2016 | PODS | 6.5166769e-05 |
| 5,800 | AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3218628e-05 |
| 7,268 | Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 4.7769096e-05 |
| 8,704 | Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics | 2022 | VLDB | 4.4596039e-05 |
| 10,516 | SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.0016113151 |
| 2,304 | A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data | 2013 | VLDB | 9.0659453e-05 |
| 4,778 | TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.9259497e-05 |
| 5,667 | Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations | 1994 | VLDB | 5.3823876e-05 |
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| 2,119 | Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join | 1998 | VLDB | 9.5036401e-05 |
| 442 | Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00023095823 |
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| 8,599 | The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems | 1994 | VLDB | 4.4832771e-05 |
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| 8,704 | Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics | 2022 | VLDB | 4.4596039e-05 |
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