Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations

Summary: GPU-accelerated spatial operations integrated into a commercial DBMS; architecture enables end-to-end integration. Real-world GIS data show speedups, validating hardware-accelerated spatial query processing as production backend. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9121
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.1622784e-05
Overall Rank: 2,761 | 80.80%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
239	GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00031617428
775	Relational Joins on Graphics Processors	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016823862
1,273	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00012912938
2,330	Concurrent Analytical Query Processing with GPUs	2014	VLDB	9.0192228e-05
2,882	Database Compression on Graphics Processors	2010	VLDB	7.9661218e-05
3,103	High-Throughput Transaction Executions on Graphics Processors	2011	VLDB	7.5586143e-05
5,125	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	5.679423e-05
5,457	Fast and Approximate Stream Mining of Quantiles and Frequencies Using Graphics Processors	2005	SIGMOD	5.4970777e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
478	Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002222104
2,278	Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins	2003	SIGMOD	9.1218781e-05
2,703	A Raster Approximation for the Processing of Spatial Joins	1998	VLDB	8.2722965e-05

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