Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins

Summary: Three-step spatial join for extended 2D objects: MBR-based candidate generation, pruning via conservative/progressive approximations, then exact geometry tests. In-memory, componentwise decomposition of objects into simple parts organized by a main-memory spatial structure yields substantial gains on real cartographic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2788
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 0.00017133516
Overall Rank: 522 | 96.43%
DOI: 10.1145/191839.191880

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thomas Brinkhoff (University of Munich)
2. Hans-Peter Kriegel (University of Munich)
3. Ralf Schneider (University of Munich)
4. Bernhard Seeger (University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brinkhoff_sigmod94,
        title = {{Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins}},
        author = {Brinkhoff, Thomas and Kriegel, Hans-Peter and Schneider, Ralf and Seeger, Bernhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '94},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/191839.191880},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/191839.191880},
        year = {1994}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
46	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.00044853085
49	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043781096
202	Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract)	1995	VLDB	0.00025454884
277	The SR-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries	1997	SIGMOD	0.00022537944
483	FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets	1995	SIGMOD	0.00017756569
728	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014542772
1,525	Incremental Distance Join Algorithms for Spatial Databases	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010493702
1,776	Efficient User-Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Multimedia Databases	1997	VLDB	9.7853414e-05
1,978	Optimizing Multidimensional Index Trees for Main Memory Access	2001	SIGMOD	9.3627341e-05
2,283	Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins	2003	SIGMOD	8.8099424e-05
2,741	Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations	2004	VLDB	8.1851944e-05
3,066	Size Separation Spatial Join	1997	SIGMOD	7.7941163e-05
3,170	A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins	1998	VLDB	7.6703896e-05
3,290	Topological Relations in the World of Minimum Bounding Rectangles: A Study with R-trees	1995	SIGMOD	7.5531472e-05
5,795	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	6.0859946e-05
6,426	Adaptive Multi-Stage Distance Join Processing	2000	SIGMOD	5.8809448e-05
8,061	Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins	2023	SIGMOD	5.4953977e-05
8,796	The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems	1994	VLDB	5.3702721e-05
8,980	Optimization of Multi-Version Expensive Predicates	2007	SIGMOD	5.3398545e-05
9,544	SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	5.2528121e-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	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 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
42	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00046170812
96	Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System	1986	SIGMOD	0.00034590762
145	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00029548428
354	Linear Clustering of Objects with Multiple Attributes	1990	SIGMOD	0.00020355578
8,796	The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems	1994	VLDB	5.3702721e-05

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