Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Query Processing in Spatial Databases

Query Processing in Spatial Databases

Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781605662428|ISBN10: 1605662429|EISBN13: 9781605662435
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch030
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Corral, Antonio, and Michael Vassilakopoulos. "Query Processing in Spatial Databases." Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends, edited by Viviana E. Ferraggine, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 269-278. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch030

APA

Corral, A. & Vassilakopoulos, M. (2009). Query Processing in Spatial Databases. In V. Ferraggine, J. Doorn, & L. Rivero (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends (pp. 269-278). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch030

Chicago

Corral, Antonio, and Michael Vassilakopoulos. "Query Processing in Spatial Databases." In Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends, edited by Viviana E. Ferraggine, Jorge Horacio Doorn, and Laura C. Rivero, 269-278. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch030

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

Spatial data management has been an active area of intensive research for more than two decades. In order to support spatial objects in a database system several important issues must be taken into account such as: spatial data models, indexing mechanisms and efficient query processing. A spatial database system (SDBS) is a database system that offers spatial data types in its data model and query language and supports spatial data types in its implementation, providing at least spatial indexing and efficient spatial query processing (Güting, 1994). The main reason that has caused the active study of spatial database management systems (SDBMS) comes from the needs of the existing applications such as geographical information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD), very large scale integration design (VLSI), multimedia information systems (MIS), data warehousing, multi-criteria decision making, location-based services, etc.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.