SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware
Summary: SwiftSpatial is an FPGA-based accelerator for spatial joins, featuring multiple join units and a scheduler for R-tree traversal and PBSM. It delivers 41.03x latency reduction and 6.16x energy savings vs CPU/GPU baselines, enabling edge deployment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Wenqi Jiang (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Oleh-Yevhen Khavrona (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Martin Parvanov (ETH Zurich)
- 4. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{jiang_sigmod25,
title = {{SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware}},
author = {Jiang, Wenqi and Khavrona, Oleh-Yevhen and Parvanov, Martin and Alonso, Gustavo},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3725361},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725361},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,517 | Discovery of Denial Constraints with Hardware Acceleration | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 10,976 | RayBooster: A Ray Tracing Engine to Accelerate SedonaDB | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
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