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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
2706
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00029548428
Overall Rank
145 | 99.01%
DOI
10.1145/170035.170075

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brinkhoff_sigmod93,
        title = {{Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees}},
        author = {Brinkhoff, Thomas and Kriegel, Hans-Peter and Seeger, Bernhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170075},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170075},
        year = {1993}
}

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449 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases 2003 VLDB 0.0001826404
483 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00017756569
522 Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins 1994 SIGMOD 0.00017133516
546 Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00016734556
728 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014542772
776 Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database 2009 VLDB 0.00014110016
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3,041 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8254399e-05
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6,106 A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins 2017 VLDB 5.973703e-05
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6,298 Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations 1994 VLDB 5.9227722e-05
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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 0.0020210012
4 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.001157935
96 Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System 1986 SIGMOD 0.00034590762
253 A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching 1984 PODS 0.00023200431
1,019 Redundancy in Spatial Databases 1989 SIGMOD 0.00012622386
2,168 A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases 1992 SIGMOD 9.0469646e-05
2,341 Parallel R-trees 1992 SIGMOD 8.7233426e-05
3,771 Query Processing Method for Multi-Attribute Clustered Relations 1990 VLDB 7.1391812e-05
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