A hybrid index structure for geo-textual searches

  • Authors:
  • Richard Göbel;Andreas Henrich;Raik Niemann;Daniel Blank

  • Affiliations:
  • Hochschule Hof, Hof, Germany;University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;Hochschule Hof, Hof, Germany;University of Bamberg, 96052 Bamberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The efficient execution of multi-criteria queries has gained increasing interest over the last years. In the present paper we propose an R-tree based approach for queries addressing textual as well as geographic filter conditions. Whereas most previous approaches use an index structure optimised for a single criterion adding special treatment for the other criterion at the leaf nodes or end points of this index structure, our approach uses a deeper integration. In short, R-trees are maintained for certain subsets of the whole term set. Furthermore, in each of these R-trees bit sets are used within the nodes to indicate whether entries for the terms associated with the single bits can be found in the corresponding sub-tree. Our index structure aims to be both, time and space efficient. The paper investigates the efficiency and applicability of the proposed index structure via practical experiments based on real-world and synthetic data.