The Case for Distance-Bounded Spatial Approximations
Summary: Advocates returning final query results directly from fine-grained spatial approximations (no exact geometry rechecks) with provable distance-bounded error. Enables controllable accuracy–performance tradeoffs for interactive, imprecise geospatial workloads using modern hardware. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou (Technical University of Berlin)
- 2. Andreas Kipf (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Ibrahim Sabek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Varun Pandey (Technical University of Munich)
- 5. Harish Doraiswamy (New York University)
- 6. Volker Markl (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zacharatou_cidr21,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '21},
title = {{The Case for Distance-Bounded Spatial Approximations}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Zacharatou, Eleni Tzirita and Kipf, Andreas and Sabek, Ibrahim and Pandey, Varun and Doraiswamy, Harish and Markl, Volker},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,751 | The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.5241784e-05 |
| 8,061 | Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.4953977e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.001157935 |
| 1,100 | Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.00012169143 |
| 3,170 | A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins | 1998 | VLDB | 7.6703896e-05 |
| 3,741 | Spatial Online Sampling and Aggregation | 2016 | VLDB | 7.1586403e-05 |
| 5,709 | GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons | 2018 | VLDB | 6.1142154e-05 |
| 6,216 | Interactive Visual Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Urban Data Sets using Urbane | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.9425753e-05 |
| 6,629 | A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.8194784e-05 |
| 7,379 | Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 5.629255e-05 |
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