The BANG file: a new kind of grid file

Summary: Introduces the BANG file (Balanced And Nested Grid), a multi-dimensional grid-file-like structure with a self-balancing, B-tree-style directory. It grows with data regardless of distribution, and its partitioning mirrors clustering while adapting gracefully to distribution changes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2349
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 0.00014658958
Overall Rank: 1,009 | 92.99%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Freeston

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
356	Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals	1994	VLDB	0.00026091196
821	Dimensionality Reduction for Similarity Searching in Dynamic Databases	1998	SIGMOD	0.00016232579
833	The Buddy-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Base Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00016085787
1,476	Towards an Analysis of Range Query Performance in Spatial Data Structures	1993	PODS	0.00011752931
1,519	A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance	1996	PODS	0.00011535609
2,144	The LSD tree: spatial access to multidimensional point and non-point objects	1989	VLDB	9.4375327e-05
3,065	Query Processing Method for Multi-Attribute Clustered Relations	1990	VLDB	7.6258862e-05
3,215	Design and Implementation of the Glue-Nail Database System	1993	SIGMOD	7.370155e-05
4,669	A General Solution of the n-dimensional B-tree Problem	1995	SIGMOD	6.0039237e-05
5,013	Twin Grid Files: Space Optimizing Access Schemes	1988	SIGMOD	5.7533424e-05
7,601	Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods	1996	VLDB	4.6967949e-05
8,599	The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems	1994	VLDB	4.4832771e-05
8,810	Spatial Priority Search: An Access Technique for Scaleless Maps	1991	SIGMOD	4.4399995e-05
12,784	A Region Splitting Strategy for Physical Database Design of Multidimensional File Organizations	1997	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,979	Fixed-point semantics and the representation of algorithms on large data	1988	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes	1981	SIGMOD	0.0018380955
254	Interpolation-Based Index Maintenance	1983	PODS	0.00030506096
501	Storage Mappings For Multidimensional Linear Dynamic Hashing	1983	PODS	0.00021529047
3,908	Dynamic And Order Preserving Data Partitioning For Database Machines	1985	VLDB	6.6380291e-05
4,493	A Multidimensional Digital Hashing Scheme for Files With Composite Keys	1985	SIGMOD	6.1371575e-05

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