Size Separation Spatial Join.

Nick Koudas, Kenneth C. Sevcik: Size Separation Spatial Join. SIGMOD Conference 1997: 324-335

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/KoudasS97,
  author    = {Nick Koudas and
               Kenneth C. Sevcik},
  editor    = {Joan Peckham},
  title     = {Size Separation Spatial Join},
  booktitle = {SIGMOD 1997, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference
               on Management of Data, May 13-15, 1997, Tucson, Arizona, USA},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {324-335},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/253260.253340},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/97},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

We introduce a new algorithm to compute the spatial join of two or more spatial data sets, when indexes are not available on them. Size Separation Spatial Join (S³J) imposes a hierarchical decomposition of the data space and, in contrast with previous approaches, requires no replication of entities from the input data sets. Thus its execution time depends only on the sizes of the joined data sets.

We describe S³J and present an analytical evaluation of its l/O and processor requirements comparing them with those of previously proposed algorithms for the same problem. We show that S³J has relatively simple cost estimation formulas that can be exploited by a query optimizer. S³J can be efficiently implemented using software already present in many relational systems. In addition, we introduce Dynamic Spatial Bitmaps (DSB), a new technique that enables S³J to dynamically or statically exploit bitmap query processing techniques.

Finally, we present experimental results for a prototype implementation of S³J involving real and synthetic data sets for a variety of data distributions. Our experimental results are consistent with our analytical observations and demonstrate the performance benefits of S³J over alternative approaches that have been proposed recently.

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