Adaptive Indexing in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces

Summary: Introduces AV-tree, an adaptive high-dimensional metric index that reuses distances and query centers as vantage points, avoiding ineffective orthotope partitioning. It targets short-lived workloads, offering fast initial queries before converging to or surpassing MVP-tree performance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13287
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.2884486e-05
Overall Rank: 9,334 | 35.97%
DOI: 10.14778/3603581.3603592

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Authors

1. Konstantinos Lampropoulos (University of Ioannina)
2. Fatemeh Zardbani (Aarhus University)
3. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina)
4. Panagiotis Karras (Aarhus University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lampropoulos_vldb23,
        title = {{Adaptive Indexing in High-Dimensional Metric Spaces}},
        author = {Lampropoulos, Konstantinos and Zardbani, Fatemeh and Mamoulis, Nikos and Karras, Panagiotis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2525--2537},
        doi = {10.14778/3603581.3603592},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603592},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,898	Cracking Vector Search Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.3495662e-05
10,400	Scalable Graph Indexing using GPUs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,984	Benchmarking Adaptive Multidimensional Indices	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
21	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00056760516
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040719947
93	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00034701237
195	Fast Exact Shortest-Path Distance Queries on Large Networks by Pruned Landmark Labeling	2013	SIGMOD	0.00025813775
259	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023119313
1,679	Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores	2009	SIGMOD	0.00010029136
1,811	Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2011	VLDB	9.698026e-05
2,378	The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking	2014	VLDB	8.6682285e-05
2,938	FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems	2017	SIGMOD	7.942728e-05
3,558	Updating a Cracked Database	2007	SIGMOD	7.3101789e-05
3,830	Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2012	VLDB	7.0877801e-05
4,627	Pivot-based Metric Indexing	2017	VLDB	6.5963674e-05
5,851	k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation	2016	VLDB	6.0659596e-05
6,651	Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.8141997e-05
8,531	Adaptive Indexing over Encrypted Numeric Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.4119882e-05
9,887	Adaptive Indexing of Objects with Spatial Extent	2023	VLDB	5.2006273e-05

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