IBM DB2 Spatial Extender - Spatial data within the RDBMS

Summary: IBM DB2 Spatial Extender brings GIS-style spatial processing into an RDBMS, enabled by GIS, database architecture, and SQL standards. It uses DB2 UDB's object-relational support to deliver standards-based SQL spatial capabilities inside the database. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hea0c2f5bb506722b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.9304691e-05
Overall Rank: 5,962 | 59.93%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David W. Adler (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{adler_vldb01,
        title = {{IBM DB2 Spatial Extender - Spatial data within the RDBMS}},
        author = {Adler, David W.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,019	Ganos: A Multidimensional, Dynamic, and Scene-Oriented Cloud-Native Spatial Database Engine	2022	VLDB	5.9101772e-05
6,234	A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries	2020	SIGMOD	5.8409173e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,862	MapInfo SpatialWare: A Spatial Information Server for RDBMS	1998	VLDB	5.9654028e-05

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