Analysis Of Object Oriented Spatial Access Methods

Summary: First known analytic treatment of R-trees; derives 1D formulas and uses higher-dimensional transformation to compare R- and R+-trees. R+-trees require under half the disk accesses of R-trees on real data, especially with many small segments versus few long ones. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2363
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 9.7378136e-05
Overall Rank: 2,030 | 85.88%
DOI: -

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Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
24	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Index For Multi-Dimensional Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00083378538
838	The Buddy-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Base Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00016088938
925	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015264328
1,114	Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension	1994	PODS	0.00013901031
1,174	Spatial Hash-Joins	1996	SIGMOD	0.00013486418
1,528	A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance	1996	PODS	0.00011497734
1,997	A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases	1992	SIGMOD	9.8322994e-05
2,144	The LSD tree: spatial access to multidimensional point and non-point objects	1989	VLDB	9.4416732e-05
2,672	Spatial Joins Using Seeded Trees	1994	SIGMOD	8.3363695e-05
2,974	Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension	1995	VLDB	7.789769e-05
5,021	Twin Grid Files: Space Optimizing Access Schemes	1988	SIGMOD	5.7548311e-05
5,458	V-Trees - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data	1994	VLDB	5.496829e-05
5,664	Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations	1994	VLDB	5.3821564e-05
5,860	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	5.2990241e-05
6,571	Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods	1988	VLDB	5.0061936e-05
9,767	Adaptive Indexing of Objects with Spatial Extent	2023	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
11,128	LARGE: A Length-Aggregation-based Grid Structure for Line Density Visualization	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 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	0.0032169493
5	The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes	1981	SIGMOD	0.0018397217
56	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.00065631356
76	Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System	1986	SIGMOD	0.00057303551

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