Support of high performance queries on large volumes of spatial data becomes increasingly
important in many application domains, including geospatial problems in numerous fields …

In data mining applications and spatial and multimedia databases, a useful tool is the k NN
join, which is to produce the k nearest neighbors (NN), from a dataset S, of every point in a …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

Although there are many advanced and specialized texts and handbooks on algorithms,
until now there was no book that focused exclusively on the wide variety of data structures …

A variety of techniques for performing a spatial join are reviewed. Instead of just
summarizing the literature and presenting each technique in its entirety, distinct components …

The spatial join is a popular operation in spatial database systems and its evaluation is a
well-studied problem. This paper reviews research and recent trends on spatial join …

MapReduce is a widely used parallel programming model and computing platform. With
MapReduce, it is very easy to develop scalable parallel programs to process data-intensive …

Dynamic attributes are attributes that change continuously over time making it impractical to
issue explicit updates for every change. In this paper, we adapt a variant of the quadtree …

The similarity join is an important database primitive which has been successfully applied to
speed up applications such as similarity search, data analysis and data mining. The …

Due to the evolution of Geographical Information Systems, large collections of spatial data
having various thematic contents are currently available. As a result, the interest of users is …