SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware

Summary: SwiftSpatial is an FPGA-based accelerator for spatial joins, featuring multiple join units and a scheduler for R-tree traversal and PBSM. It delivers 41.03x latency reduction and 6.16x energy savings vs CPU/GPU baselines, enabling edge deployment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7276
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,516 | 26.92%
DOI: 10.1145/3725361

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032118946
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147	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041201518
217	A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching	1984	PODS	0.00033533621
356	Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals	1994	VLDB	0.00026091196
479	Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022182486
923	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015254021
1,199	Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce	2013	VLDB	0.00013358019
1,301	Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012702767
1,721	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010741822
1,932	X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010050776
2,194	How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems?	2018	VLDB	9.3268219e-05
2,283	Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins	2003	SIGMOD	9.1138663e-05
2,708	A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins	1998	VLDB	8.2643522e-05
2,905	Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations	1997	VLDB	7.9364369e-05
3,278	Quadtree and R-tree Indexes in Oracle Spatial: A Comparison using GIS Data	2002	SIGMOD	7.2858181e-05
3,879	Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage	2017	VLDB	6.6657548e-05
4,173	Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop	2015	VLDB	6.3776318e-05
4,646	LocationSpark: A Distributed In-Memory Data Management System for Big Spatial Data	2016	VLDB	6.0176549e-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
5,179	FPGA-based Data Partitioning	2017	SIGMOD	5.6384436e-05
5,463	The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.4920768e-05
5,526	GPU Rasterization for Real-Time Spatial Aggregation over Arbitrary Polygons	2018	VLDB	5.4585713e-05
5,985	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.2399365e-05
6,851	Spatial Joins in Main Memory: Implementation Matters!	2015	VLDB	4.9031078e-05
6,950	A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries	2020	SIGMOD	4.8845195e-05
7,163	SKT: A One-Pass Multi-Sketch Data Analytics Accelerator	2021	VLDB	4.808534e-05
7,805	Hardware Acceleration of Compression and Encryption in SAP HANA	2022	VLDB	4.642406e-05
7,827	Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.6379617e-05
8,050	Lowering the Latency of Data Processing Pipelines Through FPGA based Hardware Acceleration	2020	VLDB	4.5933331e-05
8,201	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	4.5555217e-05
8,260	Raster Intervals: An Approximation Technique for Polygon Intersection Joins	2023	SIGMOD	4.5421134e-05
9,080	AT-GIS: Highly Parallel Spatial Query Processing with Associative Transducers	2016	SIGMOD	4.3956437e-05
9,213	Optimistic Data Parallelism for FPGA-Accelerated Sketching	2023	VLDB	4.3684604e-05
9,881	DASH: Asynchronous Hardware Data Processing Services	2023	CIDR	4.2602815e-05

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