Topological Queries in Spatial Databases
Summary: Region-based languages from Egenhofer–Franzosa relations are expressively complete for 2D topological properties and range in complexity from NC to undecidable. The NC fragment matches point-based expressiveness, and semi-algebraic regions admit NC-computable finite invariants (and polygonal reps), so topological queries reduce to finite-structure queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Christos H. Papadimitriou (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Dan Suciu (AT&T)
- 3. Victor Vianu (University of California San Diego)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{papadimitriou_pods96,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '96},
title = {{Topological Queries in Spatial Databases}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237661.237683},
doi = {10.1145/237661.237683},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Papadimitriou, Christos H. and Suciu, Dan and Vianu, Victor},
year = {1996}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,643 | Exact and Approximate Aggregation in Constraint Query Languages | 1999 | PODS | 6.487238e-05 |
| 5,433 | Querying Spatial Databases via Topological Invariants | 1998 | PODS | 6.1308517e-05 |
| 8,227 | Complete geometrical query languages (extended abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 5.3735953e-05 |
| 13,170 | Reachability and Connectivity Queries in Constraint Databases | 2000 | PODS | 4.9769913e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915 | Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013097866 |
| 1,513 | Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1994 | PODS | 0.00010424604 |
| 1,952 | Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages | 1996 | PODS | 9.315128e-05 |
| 2,296 | Finitely Representable Databases | 1994 | PODS | 8.68133e-05 |
| 5,659 | Dense-Order Constraint Databases (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | PODS | 6.0453458e-05 |
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