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Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees

Summary: First detailed study of spatial join processing using R*-trees at scale, addressing CPU and I/O bottlenecks. Techniques yield order-of-magnitude speedup over naive approaches; buffering makes I/O near-optimal, validated on large real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2644
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00041182766
Overall Rank
148 | 98.98%
DOI
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27 Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining 1994 VLDB 0.00080736878
47 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.0007015885
362 Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases 1995 VLDB 0.00025770385
389 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00024620268
471 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022364776
478 Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins 1994 SIGMOD 0.0002222104
601 Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00019375875
919 Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database 2009 VLDB 0.00015343179
925 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.00015264328
1,165 SINA: Scalable Incremental Processing of Continuous Queries in Spatio-temporal Databases 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013557822
1,174 Spatial Hash-Joins 1996 SIGMOD 0.00013486418
1,562 Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates 1997 VLDB 0.00011356744
1,631 Incremental Distance Join Algorithms for Spatial Databases 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011078269
1,733 Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents 2002 VLDB 0.00010724888
1,768 Closest Pair Queries in Spatial Databases 2000 SIGMOD 0.00010622873
2,094 Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join 1998 VLDB 9.5547223e-05
2,281 Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 9.1077704e-05
2,672 Spatial Joins Using Seeded Trees 1994 SIGMOD 8.3363695e-05
2,703 A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins 1998 VLDB 8.2722965e-05
2,900 Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations 1997 VLDB 7.9405413e-05
3,457 Size Separation Spatial Join 1997 SIGMOD 7.0755358e-05
3,514 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.0226998e-05
3,664 FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval 2000 VLDB 6.8636265e-05
3,800 Time-Parameterized Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases 2002 SIGMOD 6.7585633e-05
3,908 Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions 2007 SIGMOD 6.6392878e-05
4,529 Integration of Spatial Join Algorithms for Processing Multiple Inputs 1999 SIGMOD 6.1078661e-05
4,612 Filter Trees for Managing Spatial Data Over a Range of Size Granularities 1996 VLDB 6.0484423e-05
4,737 Joining Interval Data in Relational Databases 2004 SIGMOD 5.9604127e-05
4,746 An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory 2013 VLDB 5.9571146e-05
4,780 TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning 2013 SIGMOD 5.9263494e-05
5,514 GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons 2018 VLDB 5.4638186e-05
5,636 GORDER: An Efficient Method for KNN Join Processing 2004 VLDB 5.3981191e-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
6,012 Clue-based Spatio-textual Query 2017 VLDB 5.2415551e-05
6,154 A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins 2017 VLDB 5.1815134e-05
6,161 Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws 2000 SIGMOD 5.1753664e-05
6,500 Adaptive Multi-Stage Distance Join Processing 2000 SIGMOD 5.0381573e-05
7,133 Parallel Algorithms for High-dimensional Proximity Joins 1997 VLDB 4.8226285e-05
7,332 The Complexity of Boolean Conjunctive Queries with Intersection Joins 2022 PODS 4.7606012e-05
7,616 SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases 2003 CIDR 4.6945188e-05
7,729 Processing and Optimization of Multiway Spatial Joins Using R-trees 1999 PODS 4.6660821e-05
7,765 Cache-oblivious High-performance Similarity Join 2019 SIGMOD 4.6572085e-05
8,159 Computing Complex Temporal Join Queries Efficiently 2022 SIGMOD 4.5729025e-05
8,263 Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins 2023 SIGMOD 4.5464722e-05
8,359 Waffle: A Workload-Aware and Query-Sensitive Framework for Disk-Based Spatial Indexing 2023 VLDB 4.5372925e-05
8,575 THERMAL-JOIN: A Scalable Spatial Join for Dynamic Workloads 2015 SIGMOD 4.4928872e-05
8,601 The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems 1994 VLDB 4.4875358e-05
8,868 A Bayesian Method for Guessing the Extreme Values in a Data Set 2007 VLDB 4.4320869e-05
8,899 Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.427232e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 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
6 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0016162015
76 Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System 1986 SIGMOD 0.00057303551
216 A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching 1984 PODS 0.00033542705
1,034 Redundancy in Spatial Databases 1989 SIGMOD 0.00014534274
1,997 A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases 1992 SIGMOD 9.8322994e-05
2,246 Parallel R-trees 1992 SIGMOD 9.2075292e-05
3,064 Query Processing Method for Multi-Attribute Clustered Relations 1990 VLDB 7.6279403e-05
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