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)
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Authors
- 1. Thomas Brinkhoff (University of Munich)
- 2. Hans-Peter Kriegel (University of Munich)
- 3. Bernhard Seeger (University of Munich)
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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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,233 | Indexing Medium-dimensionality Data in Oracle | 1999 | SIGMOD | 5.3017497e-05 |
| 9,544 | SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2528121e-05 |
| 10,017 | Continuous Query Processing in Data Streams Using Duality of Data and Queries | 2006 | SIGMOD | 5.1758281e-05 |
| 10,359 | DiskJoin: Large-scale Vector Similarity Join with SSD | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,876 | BLAEQ: A Multigrid Index for Spatial Query on Geometry Data | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,141 | Optimal (Multiway) Spatial Joins | 2024 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,182 | An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data | 2014 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,944 | Algorithms for Querying by Spatial Structure | 1998 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 14,313 | GENESYS: A System for Efficient Spatial Query Processing | 1994 | SIGMOD | - |
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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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