AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data
Summary: AQWA: adaptive, workload-aware partitioning that incrementally updates partitions as data arrives and queries execute, with no distribution/workload. Twitter data with range/kNN workloads shows AQWA delivering up to 10x faster queries than static partitioning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ahmed M. Aly (Purdue University)
- 2. Ahmed R. Mahmood (Purdue University)
- 3. Mohamed S. Hassan (Purdue University)
- 4. Walid G. Aref (Purdue University)
- 5. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 6. Hazem Elmeleegy (Turn Inc.)
- 7. Thamir Qadah (Purdue University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{aly_vldb15,
title = {{AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data}},
author = {Aly, Ahmed M. and Mahmood, Ahmed R. and Hassan, Mohamed S. and Aref, Walid G. and Ouzzani, Mourad and Elmeleegy, Hazem and Qadah, Thamir},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {13},
doi = {10.14778/2831360.2831361},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2831360.2831361},
year = {2015}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,480 | LocationSpark: A Distributed In-Memory Data Management System for Big Spatial Data | 2016 | VLDB | 6.67565e-05 |
| 7,379 | Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 5.629255e-05 |
| 8,057 | Architecting a Query Compiler for Spatial Workloads | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4982831e-05 |
| 8,644 | Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3934068e-05 |
| 9,887 | Adaptive Indexing of Objects with Spatial Extent | 2023 | VLDB | 5.2006273e-05 |
| 9,953 | Amoeba: A Shape changing Storage System for Big Data | 2016 | VLDB | 5.1901412e-05 |
| 10,102 | Distributed Stream KNN Join | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.1488731e-05 |
| 11,797 | SSTD: A Distributed System on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data | 2020 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,979 | Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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