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Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases

Summary: Best-first kNN on spatial networks with precomputed all-pairs shortest paths and a first-edge decomposition, decoupling path work from candidate sets. Shortest-path quadtree uses spatial coherence to trim storage from O(N^3) to O(N^1.5) and lets the same paths be reused across object queries when the network is static. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4038
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00018532516
Overall Rank
433 | 97.04%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376623

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{samet_sigmod08,
        title = {{Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases}},
        author = {Samet, Hanan and Sankaranarayanan, Jagan and Alborzi, Houman},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376623},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376623},
        year = {2008}
}

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949 Shortest Path and Distance Queries on Road Networks: An Experimental Evaluation 2012 VLDB 0.00013028107
968 Path Oracles for Spatial Networks 2009 VLDB 0.00012901559
1,205 Shortest Path and Distance Queries on Road Networks: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice 2013 SIGMOD 0.00011664469
1,232 A Highway-Centric Labeling Approach for Answering Distance Queries on Large Sparse Graphs 2012 SIGMOD 0.00011566372
1,386 On k-skip Shortest Paths 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010950754
1,553 Hop Doubling Label Indexing for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Scale-Free Networks 2014 VLDB 0.0001037809
1,613 When Hierarchy Meets 2-Hop-Labeling: Efficient Shortest Distance Queries on Road Networks 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010216983
1,618 Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Neighbors on Land Surface 2009 VLDB 0.00010207737
1,622 IS-LABEL: an Independent-Set based Labeling Scheme for Point-to-Point Distance Querying 2013 VLDB 0.00010201102
2,153 Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks 2009 SIGMOD 9.0762376e-05
3,612 Relative Subboundedness of Contraction Hierarchy and Hierarchical 2-Hop Index in Dynamic Road Networks 2022 SIGMOD 7.2579119e-05
3,834 Effective Caching of Shortest Paths for Location-Based Services 2012 SIGMOD 7.0841464e-05
4,289 Graph Indexing for Shortest-Path Finding over Dynamic Sub-Graphs 2016 SIGMOD 6.779194e-05
4,573 TOAIN: A Throughput Optimizing Adaptive Index for Answering Dynamic kNN Queries on Road Networks 2018 VLDB 6.6226156e-05
4,786 Architecture-Intact Oracle for Fastest Path and Time Queries on Dynamic Spatial Networks 2020 SIGMOD 6.5083151e-05
4,937 The V*-Diagram: A Query-Dependent Approach to Moving KNN Queries 2008 VLDB 6.4350791e-05
5,393 Efficient Reachability Query Evaluation in Large Spatiotemporal Contact Datasets 2012 VLDB 6.2337766e-05
5,851 k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation 2016 VLDB 6.0659596e-05
6,844 An Experimental Evaluation and Guideline for Path Finding in Weighted Dynamic Network 2021 VLDB 5.7566172e-05
6,940 Exact Top-k Nearest Keyword Search in Large Networks 2015 SIGMOD 5.7331991e-05
7,180 Nearest Keyword Search in XML Documents 2011 SIGMOD 5.6798251e-05
7,813 TRACE: Real-time Compression of Streaming Trajectories in Road Networks 2021 VLDB 5.5390003e-05
7,817 Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage 2012 VLDB 5.5377369e-05
7,976 Correlation Constraint Shortest Path over Large Multi-Relation Graphs 2019 VLDB 5.5152959e-05
8,493 Top-K Nearest Keyword Search on Large Graphs 2013 VLDB 5.4142883e-05
8,543 Finding Shortest Path on Land Surface 2011 SIGMOD 5.4119882e-05
9,111 Efficient Algorithms for Finding Optimal Meeting Point on Road Networks 2011 VLDB 5.3221578e-05
9,143 Processing Proximity Relations in Road Networks 2010 SIGMOD 5.3153925e-05
9,358 SkyGraph: Retrieving Regions of Interest using Skyline Subgraph Queries 2017 VLDB 5.2822032e-05
11,213 LION: Fast and High-Resolution Network Kernel Density Visualization 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,272 Efficient kNN Search in Public Transportation Networks 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,474 Shortest Path Computation on Air Indexes 2010 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,724 Techniques for Similarity Searching in Multimedia Databases 2010 VLDB -
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00052102434
449 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases 2003 VLDB 0.0001826404
665 Voronoi-Based K Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Network Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00015167291
1,025 An Efficient and Scalable Approach to CNN Queries in a Road Network 2005 VLDB 0.00012578515
2,629 Distance Indexing on Road Networks 2006 VLDB 8.3265243e-05
7,262 A Population Analysis for Hierarchical Data Structures 1987 SIGMOD 5.6612247e-05
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