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Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees

Summary: First detailed study of spatial join processing using R*-trees at scale, addressing CPU and I/O bottlenecks. Techniques yield order-of-magnitude speedup over naive approaches; buffering makes I/O near-optimal, validated on large real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha227dabc9d575d27
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.000289618
Overall Rank
146 | 99.03%
DOI
10.1145/170035.170075

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brinkhoff_sigmod93,
        title = {{Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees}},
        author = {Brinkhoff, Thomas and Kriegel, Hans-Peter and Seeger, Bernhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170075},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170075},
        year = {1993}
}

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463 Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00017806376
490 FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets 1995 SIGMOD 0.00017397036
530 Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins 1994 SIGMOD 0.00016832286
547 Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00016545689
760 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001419395
786 Distance-Join: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database 2009 VLDB 0.00013979657
999 Spatial Hash-Joins 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012590189
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1,555 Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents 2002 VLDB 0.0001023212
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1,729 Closest Pair Queries in Spatial Databases 2000 SIGMOD 9.761101e-05
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2,957 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.799694e-05
3,131 Size Separation Spatial Join 1997 SIGMOD 7.6016052e-05
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3,578 Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions 2007 SIGMOD 7.1743861e-05
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6,238 A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins 2017 VLDB 5.8236947e-05
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6,882 Computing Complex Temporal Join Queries Efficiently 2022 SIGMOD 5.6412354e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0019892478
4 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0011386412
102 Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System 1986 SIGMOD 0.00033850505
267 A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching 1984 PODS 0.00022688423
1,038 Redundancy in Spatial Databases 1989 SIGMOD 0.00012349149
2,217 A Qualitative Comparison Study of Data Structures for Large Line Segment Databases 1992 SIGMOD 8.8230488e-05
2,400 Parallel R-trees 1992 SIGMOD 8.5059093e-05
3,851 Query Processing Method for Multi-Attribute Clustered Relations 1990 VLDB 6.9637995e-05
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