HINT: A Hierarchical Index for Intervals in Main Memory
Summary: HINT is an in-memory, hierarchical interval index for overlap queries, using a partitioning scheme that assigns each interval to at most two partitions per level and splits by begin-inside vs begin-before boundaries. Space-efficient storage handles sparsity and skew; experiments show an order of magnitude faster overlap queries than prior approaches on real and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. George Christodoulou (University of Ioannina)
- 2. Panagiotis Bouros (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
- 3. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{christodoulou_sigmod22,
title = {{HINT: A Hierarchical Index for Intervals in Main Memory}},
author = {Christodoulou, George and Bouros, Panagiotis and Mamoulis, Nikos},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517873},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517873},
year = {2022}
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| 9,786 | NEXT: A New Secondary Index Framework for LSM-based Data Storage | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.1280785e-05 |
| 10,440 | Concurrent Path-Copying Update to Tree Structures | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,469 | FIRAS: A Framework for Interval Range Search and Sampling | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,536 | Fast Indexing for Temporal Information Retrieval | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,715 | Efficient Temporal Subgraph Management: A New Interval Index | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,203 | Relevance Queries for Interval Data | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,240 | Efficient Concurrent Updates to Persistent Randomized Binary Search Trees | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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| 51 | Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00042926566 |
| 347 | Generalizing Data to Provide Anonymity when Disclosing Information | 1998 | PODS | 0.00020316249 |
| 458 | The PGM-index: a fully-dynamic compressed learned index with provable worst-case bounds | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00017880664 |
| 1,129 | Managing Intervals Efficiently in Object-Relational Databases | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00011899744 |
| 1,404 | Towards an Analysis of Range Query Performance in Spatial Data Structures | 1993 | PODS | 0.00010762824 |
| 2,611 | Timeline Index: A Unified Data Structure for Processing Queries on Temporal Data in SAP HANA | 2013 | SIGMOD | 8.2237793e-05 |
| 2,847 | Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression | 2008 | VLDB | 7.9411756e-05 |
| 4,570 | Overlap Interval Partition Join | 2014 | SIGMOD | 6.5270765e-05 |
| 6,226 | A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins | 2017 | VLDB | 5.8430153e-05 |
| 7,741 | XPRESS: A Queriable Compression for XML Data | 2003 | SIGMOD | 5.460364e-05 |
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