THERMAL-JOIN: A Scalable Spatial Join for Dynamic Workloads

Summary: THERMAL-JOIN is a scalable spatial self-join for dynamic, memory-resident scientific simulations. A nested spatial grid identifies hot spots of nearby objects, yielding 8–12x speedups over state-of-the-art and scalable with higher precision. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5051
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.4928872e-05
Overall Rank: 8,575 | 40.35%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2749434

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Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,507	Similarity Join over Array Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.0337166e-05
10,988	Finding Logic Bugs in Spatial Database Engines via Affine Equivalent Inputs	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032169493
148	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041182766
266	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00029718727
925	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015264328
1,067	The TPR*-Tree: An Optimized Spatio-Temporal Access Method for Predictive Queries	2003	VLDB	0.00014327945
1,931	Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce	2012	VLDB	0.00010040427
1,983	Optimizing Multidimensional Index Trees for Main Memory Access	2001	SIGMOD	9.8638201e-05
2,281	Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data	2001	SIGMOD	9.1077704e-05
2,534	STRIPES: An Efficient Index for Predicted Trajectories	2004	SIGMOD	8.5890923e-05
3,141	ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce	2014	VLDB	7.4829448e-05
3,457	Size Separation Spatial Join	1997	SIGMOD	7.0755358e-05
4,683	ST2B-tree: A Self-Tunable Spatio-Temporal B+-tree Index for Moving Objects	2008	SIGMOD	6.0010961e-05
4,746	An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory	2013	VLDB	5.9571146e-05
4,780	TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning	2013	SIGMOD	5.9263494e-05
6,202	A Benchmark for Evaluating Moving Object Indexes	2008	VLDB	5.1593242e-05
6,852	Spatial Joins in Main Memory: Implementation Matters!	2015	VLDB	4.9078179e-05
7,203	Indexing Methods for Moving Object Databases: Games and Other Applications	2013	SIGMOD	4.8019323e-05

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