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A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures

Summary: Generic bulk loader for multidimensional indexes avoids global sorting, instead reusing native page split/merge routines and inserting records in batches. For R-trees, it achieves external-sort I/O lower bounds with improved practical performance and no query-quality loss. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 21 2026)

Paper ID
8632
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
9.5068846e-05
Overall Rank
1,901 | 86.96%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{bercken_vldb97,
        title = {{A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures}},
        author = {van den Bercken, Jochen and Seeger, Bernhard and Widmayer, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        year = {1997}
}

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0020210012
4 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.001157935
85 The X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data 1996 VLDB 0.00035405879
116 Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees 1985 SIGMOD 0.0003221055
202 Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) 1995 VLDB 0.00025454884
681 Access Methods For Multiversion Data 1989 SIGMOD 0.0001502579
726 Client-Server Paradise 1994 VLDB 0.0001460632
936 The Buddy-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Base Systems 1990 VLDB 0.00013092484
1,877 The LSD tree: spatial access to multidimensional point and non-point objects 1989 VLDB 9.5658249e-05
2,310 Spatial Joins Using Seeded Trees 1994 SIGMOD 8.7650894e-05
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