Quadtree and R-tree Indexes in Oracle Spatial: A Comparison using GIS Data

Summary: Implementation and optimization of Quadtree and R-tree indexes in Oracle Spatial. Empirical comparison across GIS queries and large datasets, highlighting trade-offs and practical guidance for index choice in spatial workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3381
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 7.2858181e-05
Overall Rank: 3,278 | 77.22%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
858	SRS: Solving c-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Euclidean Space with a Tiny Index	2015	VLDB	0.00015833075
2,283	Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins	2003	SIGMOD	9.1138663e-05
3,259	A Revised R*-tree in Comparison with Related Index Structures	2009	SIGMOD	7.3101573e-05
6,055	Spatial Indexing in Microsoft SQL Server 2008	2008	SIGMOD	5.2297716e-05
8,470	Rapidash: Efficient Detection of Constraint Violations	2024	VLDB	4.4993203e-05
9,080	AT-GIS: Highly Parallel Spatial Query Processing with Associative Transducers	2016	SIGMOD	4.3956437e-05
9,209	Rethinking Choices for Multi-dimensional Point Indexing: Making the Case for the Often Ignored Quadtree	2007	CIDR	4.3691119e-05
10,516	SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,068	Statistics Collection in Oracle Spatial and Graph: Fast Histogram Construction for Complex Geometry Objects	2013	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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	0.0032118946
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
48	Nearest Neighbor Queries	1995	SIGMOD	0.0006954126
129	The X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data	1996	VLDB	0.00044255276
301	The SR-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries	1997	SIGMOD	0.00028396714
821	Dimensionality Reduction for Similarity Searching in Dynamic Databases	1998	SIGMOD	0.00016232579
1,519	A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance	1996	PODS	0.00011535609
3,111	Topological Relations in the World of Minimum Bounding Rectangles: A Study with R-trees	1995	SIGMOD	7.5445257e-05
3,301	Indexing the Distance: An Efficient Method to KNN Processing	2001	VLDB	7.2450912e-05
9,020	Indexing Medium-dimensionality Data in Oracle	1999	SIGMOD	4.4049428e-05

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