The Era of Big Spatial Data

Summary: Survey of recent DBMS work on Big Spatial Data, highlighting core components (indexing, query processing) for scalable spatial analytics beyond generic platforms. Classifies approaches by implementation, architecture, and components; includes case studies of systems and applications to illustrate design tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11506
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.2399365e-05
Overall Rank: 5,985 | 58.41%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ahmed Eldawy
2. Mohamed F. Mokbel

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,194	How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems?	2018	VLDB	9.3268219e-05
5,759	Hu-Fu: Efficient and Secure Spatial Queries over Data Federation	2022	VLDB	5.3372523e-05
9,487	Spatial Query Optimization With Learning	2024	VLDB	4.3300131e-05
10,516	SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024217964
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059744625
476	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.00022216002
766	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.0001690298
856	The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan	1998	SIGMOD	0.00015845377
862	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00015798065
923	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015254021
1,199	Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce	2013	VLDB	0.00013358019
1,301	Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012702767
1,437	AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS	2014	VLDB	0.00011973401
1,587	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001124095
1,927	Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce	2012	VLDB	0.00010062395
2,024	Storage Management in AsterixDB	2014	VLDB	9.7528344e-05
2,304	A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data	2013	VLDB	9.0659453e-05
2,738	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems [Vision Paper]	2014	VLDB	8.2039241e-05
3,633	Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce	2010	VLDB	6.8959345e-05
3,985	Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan	1999	VLDB	6.5582955e-05
7,176	Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan1 System	1997	VLDB	4.8054753e-05
7,536	TAREEG: A MapReduce-Based Web Service for Extracting Spatial Data from OpenStreetMap	2014	SIGMOD	4.7130979e-05
8,086	ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper]	2014	VLDB	4.5858883e-05

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9,113	MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis	2012	VLDB	4.3889284e-05
2,194	How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems?	2018	VLDB	9.3268219e-05
8,082	High-Dimensional Index Structures: Database Support for Next Decade's Applications	1998	SIGMOD	4.5870118e-05
11,129	High-Performance Spatial Data Analytics: Systematic R&D for Scale-Out and Scale-Up Solutions from the Past to Now	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
9,487	Spatial Query Optimization With Learning	2024	VLDB	4.3300131e-05
9,360	Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce	2012	VLDB	4.3476444e-05
2,304	A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data	2013	VLDB	9.0659453e-05
8,784	Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data	2019	VLDB	4.4473392e-05
14,202	Spatial Databases	1992	VLDB	-
11,782	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05