Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins

Summary: Raster intervals approximate polygons on a grid; intersecting cells form bitstring-encoded intervals. An effective filter on these approximations reduces refinement cost, delivering up to 10x end-to-end speedup and 3x improvement over prior filters. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6539
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.5464722e-05
Overall Rank: 8,263 | 42.52%
DOI: 10.1145/3588716

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Authors

1. Thanasis Georgiadis
2. Nikos Mamoulis

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,501	Relevance Queries for Interval Data	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,507	SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,981	Enabling Adaptive Sampling for Intra-Window Join: Simultaneously Optimizing Quantity and Quality	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,988	Finding Logic Bugs in Spatial Database Engines via Affine Equivalent Inputs	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,128	LARGE: A Length-Aggregation-based Grid Structure for Line Density Visualization	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 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
148	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041182766
478	Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002222104
925	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015264328
1,034	Redundancy in Spatial Databases	1989	SIGMOD	0.00014534274
1,261	Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce	2013	VLDB	0.00012989236
1,435	Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012004456
2,094	Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join	1998	VLDB	9.5547223e-05
2,189	How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems?	2018	VLDB	9.335684e-05
2,703	A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins	1998	VLDB	8.2722965e-05
4,780	TOUCH: In-Memory Spatial Join by Hierarchical Data-Oriented Partitioning	2013	SIGMOD	5.9263494e-05
5,514	GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons	2018	VLDB	5.4638186e-05
6,051	Spatial Indexing in Microsoft SQL Server 2008	2008	SIGMOD	5.2347385e-05
8,638	The Case for Distance-Bounded Spatial Approximations	2021	CIDR	4.4797417e-05

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