Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods

Summary: Classifies spatial access methods by clipping, overlapping regions, and transformation, yielding a design toolbox from point access methods. Introduces efficient asymmetric partitioning and a hybrid scheme, analytically outperforming R-/R+-trees on applicable data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8057
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 5.7773009e-05
Overall Rank: 6,777 | 53.51%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Bernhard Seeger (University of Bremen)
2. Hans-Peter Kriegel (University of Bremen)

BibTeX Citation

@article{seeger_vldb88,
        title = {{Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods}},
        author = {Seeger, Bernhard and Kriegel, Hans-Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '88},
        pages = {360--371},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,877	The LSD tree: spatial access to multidimensional point and non-point objects	1989	VLDB	9.5658249e-05
7,595	Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods	1996	VLDB	5.5888857e-05
10,017	Continuous Query Processing in Data Streams Using Duality of Data and Queries	2006	SIGMOD	5.1758281e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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	0.0020210012
8	The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes	1981	SIGMOD	0.00082404462
42	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00046170812
96	Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System	1986	SIGMOD	0.00034590762
116	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.0003221055
253	A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching	1984	PODS	0.00023200431
507	Interpolation-Based Index Maintenance	1983	PODS	0.00017277375
1,814	Analysis Of Object Oriented Spatial Access Methods	1987	SIGMOD	9.6928497e-05
4,357	Balanced Multidimensional Extendible Hash Tree	1986	PODS	6.7463723e-05
5,377	The Interpolation-Based Grid File	1985	PODS	6.2410452e-05
5,577	A Mapping Function for the Directory of a Multidimensional Extendible Hashing	1984	VLDB	6.1661217e-05

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