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
- 2. Andreas Kipf
- 3. Ibrahim Sabek
- 4. Varun Pandey
- 5. Harish Doraiswamy
- 6. Volker Markl
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,572 | The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.4277273e-05 |
| 8,263 | Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.5464722e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.0016162015 |
| 1,359 | Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.0001238588 |
| 2,703 | A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins | 1998 | VLDB | 8.2722965e-05 |
| 4,029 | Spatial Online Sampling and Aggregation | 2016 | VLDB | 6.51315e-05 |
| 4,294 | Interactive Visual Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Urban Data Sets using Urbane | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.2885419e-05 |
| 5,514 | GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4638186e-05 |
| 6,951 | A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 4.8892276e-05 |
| 7,271 | Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 4.7813404e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,882 | Improving Adaptable Similarity Query Processing by Using Approximations | 1998 | VLDB | 5.2892937e-05 |
| 3,805 | Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 6.7521192e-05 |
| 1,403 | Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00012176993 |
| 76 | Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00057303551 |
| 389 | Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00024620268 |
| 2,278 | Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins | 2003 | SIGMOD | 9.1218781e-05 |
| 478 | Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.0002222104 |
| 4,407 | Filtering with Approximate Predicates | 1998 | VLDB | 6.2133426e-05 |
| 11,878 | New Lower and Upper Bounds for Shortest Distance Queries on Terrains | 2016 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 3,543 | Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data | 2004 | SIGMOD | 6.9917053e-05 |