The Sort/Sweep Algorithm: A New Method for R-tree Based Spatial Joins

  • Authors:
  • Christophe Gurret;Philippe Rigaux

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM '00 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose a new algorithm to solve the problem of joining two spatial relations R and S when S is indexed by an R-tree. The method combines classical query processing techniques and a plane-sweeping algorithm. We compare our approach to the simple indexed-nested-loop method and to the state-of-the-art algorithms, and show through analysis and experiments on synthetic and real-life datasets that our method outperforms in most cases the other ones, in both CPU and I/O. More importantly, it appears to be more robust regarding the many parameters involved in spatial query processing.