Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations

Summary: Data-parallel spatial ops (build, polygonization, spatial join) for planar line segments compare bucket PMR quadtree, R-tree, and R+-tree on the Connection Machine. Bucket PMR quadtree outperforms the others due to a regular disjoint space decomposition that boosts parallelism and reduces interprocessor communication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8189
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.3821564e-05
Overall Rank: 5,664 | 60.60%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Erik G. Hoel
2. Hanan Samet

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

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4,217	Spatial Partitioning Techniques in SpatialHadoop	2015	VLDB	6.3514771e-05
5,860	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	5.2990241e-05
8,709	Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics	2022	VLDB	4.4638829e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 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
6	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0016162015
20	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00086459551
148	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041182766
197	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00035201758
1,997	A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases	1992	SIGMOD	9.8322994e-05
2,030	Analysis Of Object Oriented Spatial Access Methods	1987	SIGMOD	9.7378136e-05
2,246	Parallel R-trees	1992	SIGMOD	9.2075292e-05
2,462	A Performance Analysis of Alternative Multi-Attribute Declustering Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	8.7589902e-05
6,473	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.0509826e-05

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