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The Era of Big Spatial Data

Summary: Survey of recent DBMS work on Big Spatial Data, highlighting core components (indexing, query processing) for scalable spatial analytics beyond generic platforms. Classifies approaches by implementation, architecture, and components; includes case studies of systems and applications to illustrate design tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf197c89cf247415f
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
5.7768622e-05
Overall Rank
6,461 | 56.57%
DOI
10.14778/3137765.3137811

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{eldawy_vldb17,
        title = {{The Era of Big Spatial Data}},
        author = {Eldawy, Ahmed and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1992--1995},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137811},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137811},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,764 How Good Are Modern Spatial Analytics Systems? 2018 VLDB 8.0440088e-05
4,883 Hu-Fu: Efficient and Secure Spatial Queries over Data Federation 2022 VLDB 6.3710505e-05
8,804 SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.2732683e-05
8,879 Spatial Query Optimization With Learning 2024 VLDB 5.2568354e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.001052036
31 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00049839909
327 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.0002095191
741 The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan 1998 SIGMOD 0.00014322786
743 Client-Server Paradise 1994 VLDB 0.00014311524
752 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014246504
922 AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS 2014 VLDB 0.00013068048
1,080 Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce 2013 VLDB 0.00012131978
1,178 Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011632691
1,546 Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00010294163
1,608 Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010084292
1,875 Storage Management in AsterixDB 2014 VLDB 9.4576907e-05
2,176 Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 8.9159001e-05
2,858 A Demonstration of SpatialHadoop: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data 2013 VLDB 7.9354625e-05
4,141 Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce 2010 VLDB 6.7841596e-05
4,599 Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan 1999 VLDB 6.5077908e-05
5,180 The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems 2014 VLDB 6.240722e-05
7,480 Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System 1997 VLDB 5.5135285e-05
7,765 TAREEG: A MapReduce-Based Web Service for Extracting Spatial Data from OpenStreetMap 2014 SIGMOD 5.4560963e-05
8,158 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 5.3875848e-05
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