Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis

Summary: Four spatial data synopsis techniques are compared across selectivity estimation, k-means clustering, and spatial partitioning to assess scalability for big spatial data. Extensive experiments on real and synthetic datasets up to 2.7B records compare synopsis vs baseline on generation time, query time, and accuracy, revealing when each method is most effective. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11850
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 4.7769096e-05
Overall Rank: 7,268 | 49.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3342263.3342635

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,628	The Case for Distance-Bounded Spatial Approximations	2021	CIDR	4.4770207e-05
10,839	Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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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
92	Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling	1990	SIGMOD	0.00051431888
126	Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00044753012
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369	Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation	1992	SIGMOD	0.00025502381
512	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00021385343
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1,301	Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012702767
1,363	Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00012380611
1,927	Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce	2012	VLDB	0.00010062395
2,056	Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases	1999	SIGMOD	9.6692561e-05
2,146	Scalable K-Means++	2012	VLDB	9.4341455e-05
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4,173	Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop	2015	VLDB	6.3776318e-05
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5,800	AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data	2015	VLDB	5.3218628e-05
7,644	Selectivity Estimation on Streaming Spatio-Textual Data Using Local Correlations	2015	VLDB	4.6853638e-05
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8,376	Adaptive Sampling for Geometric Problems over Data Streams	2004	PODS	4.5277777e-05

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