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Analysis Of Object Oriented Spatial Access Methods

Summary: First known analytic treatment of R-trees; derives 1D formulas and uses higher-dimensional transformation to compare R- and R+-trees. R+-trees require under half the disk accesses of R-trees on real data, especially with many small segments versus few long ones. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h41b6f0029bc41ab4
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1987
Pagerank
9.4871409e-05
Overall Rank
1,861 | 87.49%
DOI
10.1145/38713.38758

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{faloutsos_sigmod87,
        title = {{ANALYSIS OF OBJECT ORIENTED SPATIAL ACCESS METHODS}},
        author = {Faloutsos, Christos and Sellis, Timos and Roussopoulos, Nick},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38758},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38758},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
44 The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects 1987 VLDB 0.00045337853
752 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014246504
965 The Buddy-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Base Systems 1990 VLDB 0.00012809362
994 Spatial Hash-Joins 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012636707
1,142 Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension 1994 PODS 0.00011848523
1,405 A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance 1996 PODS 0.0001076417
1,903 The LSD tree: spatial access to multidimensional point and non-point objects 1989 VLDB 9.4032472e-05
2,205 A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases 1992 SIGMOD 8.8556449e-05
2,358 Spatial Joins Using Seeded Trees 1994 SIGMOD 8.5817166e-05
2,827 Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension 1995 VLDB 7.967335e-05
5,292 Twin Grid Files: Space Optimizing Access Schemes 1988 SIGMOD 6.1924532e-05
5,905 Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output 1995 VLDB 5.9509027e-05
6,145 V-Trees - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data 1994 VLDB 5.8717297e-05
6,418 Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations 1994 VLDB 5.7907247e-05
6,905 Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods 1988 VLDB 5.6505668e-05
10,048 Adaptive Indexing of Objects with Spatial Extent 2023 VLDB 5.0899328e-05
11,652 LARGE: A Length-Aggregation-based Grid Structure for Line Density Visualization 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.001992968
8 The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes 1981 SIGMOD 0.0008122792
101 Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System 1986 SIGMOD 0.00033937215
116 Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees 1985 SIGMOD 0.00031645463
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