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: 5052
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 4.4885798e-05
Overall Rank: 8,572 | 40.43%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2749434

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Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,502	Similarity Join over Array Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.0288901e-05
10,991	Finding Logic Bugs in Spatial Database Engines via Affine Equivalent Inputs	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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	0.0032118946
147	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041201518
264	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00029950264
923	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015254021
1,055	The TPR*-Tree: An Optimized Spatio-Temporal Access Method for Predictive Queries	2003	VLDB	0.00014391376
1,927	Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce	2012	VLDB	0.00010062395
1,987	Optimizing Multidimensional Index Trees for Main Memory Access	2001	SIGMOD	9.8561164e-05
2,285	Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data	2001	SIGMOD	9.1097273e-05
2,532	STRIPES: An Efficient Index for Predicted Trajectories	2004	SIGMOD	8.5886308e-05
3,139	ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce	2014	VLDB	7.4915127e-05
3,462	Size Separation Spatial Join	1997	SIGMOD	7.0683581e-05
4,585	ST2B-tree: A Self-Tunable Spatio-Temporal B+-tree Index for Moving Objects	2008	SIGMOD	6.0596467e-05
4,741	An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory	2013	VLDB	5.951386e-05
4,778	TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning	2013	SIGMOD	5.9259497e-05
6,171	A Benchmark for Evaluating Moving Object Indexes	2008	VLDB	5.1705603e-05
6,851	Spatial Joins in Main Memory: Implementation Matters!	2015	VLDB	4.9031078e-05
7,202	Indexing Methods for Moving Object Databases: Games and Other Applications	2013	SIGMOD	4.7975642e-05

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