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Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases

Summary: Proposes selectivity estimation for 2D spatial queries using BSP-based partitioning and histograms to handle spatial skew. Introduces Min-Skew BSP partitioning, an efficient, compact method delivering accurate estimates across queries, outperforming sampling and parametric baselines on synthetic and TIGER data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3085
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1999
Pagerank
9.6692561e-05
Overall Rank
2,056 | 85.72%
DOI
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Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
325 The History of Histograms (abridged) 2003 VLDB 0.00027398081
995 Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014745185
3,540 Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data 2004 SIGMOD 6.9922652e-05
3,815 Location-based Spatial Queries 2003 SIGMOD 6.7314038e-05
4,142 Selectivity Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Queries to Moving Objects 2002 SIGMOD 6.4102904e-05
4,815 DigitHist: a Histogram-Based Data Summary with Tight Error Bounds 2017 VLDB 5.8978716e-05
7,268 Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis 2019 VLDB 4.7769096e-05
8,471 Adaptive Index Structures 2002 VLDB 4.4986491e-05
8,704 Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics 2022 VLDB 4.4596039e-05
9,508 Hierarchically Organized Skew-Tolerant Histograms for Geographic Data Objects 2010 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
9,663 Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets 2003 VLDB 4.3050178e-05
12,068 Statistics Collection in Oracle Spatial and Graph: Fast Histogram Construction for Complex Geometry Objects 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0032118946
6 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0016113151
24 The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Index For Multi-Dimensional Objects 1987 VLDB 0.00083300888
28 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00080571183
60 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00064450997
63 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063595699
92 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00051431888
141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041819767
250 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030640525
667 The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark 1993 SIGMOD 0.00018431008
766 Client-Server Paradise 1994 VLDB 0.0001690298
1,310 The Size of Projections of Relations Satisfying a Functional Dependency 1982 VLDB 0.000126534
1,519 A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance 1996 PODS 0.00011535609
2,978 Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension 1995 VLDB 7.7848117e-05
3,087 The Montage Extensible DataBlade Architecture 1994 SIGMOD 7.5947335e-05
3,965 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.5786424e-05
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