Rethinking Choices for Multi-dimensional Point Indexing: Making the Case for the Often Ignored Quadtree
Summary: Challenges R*-tree dominance for low-to-medium dimensional point indexing, showing Quadtree’s regular, disjoint decomposition dramatically reduces MBR overlap and yields structural/search advantages. Analytical models and extensive experiments show quadtrees (despite being unbalanced) improve buffer-pool utilization and outperform R*-trees and the Pyramid technique on point workloads, motivating their reconsideration. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. You Jung Kim
- 2. Jignesh M. Patel
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 7,772 | K-Anonymization as Spatial Indexing: Toward Scalable and Incremental Anonymization | 2007 | VLDB | 4.6554316e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 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 |
| 129 | The X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data | 1996 | VLDB | 0.0004429571 |
| 292 | Shoring Up Persistent Applications | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00028741386 |
| 354 | Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals | 1994 | VLDB | 0.00026137988 |
| 931 | The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00015238406 |
| 1,114 | Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension | 1994 | PODS | 0.00013901031 |
| 3,275 | Quadtree and R-tree Indexes in Oracle Spatial: A Comparison using GIS Data | 2002 | SIGMOD | 7.2897998e-05 |
| 3,417 | General Match: A Subsequence Matching Method in Time-Series Databases Based on Generalized Windows | 2002 | SIGMOD | 7.1195863e-05 |
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