Performance?

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I completely agree with you. But i think, that r-tree is faster with RS, but kD-tree is faster with kNN

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That's an interesting theory, could perhaps be the case. I might test that some time.

I think that range searches would definitely be faster using R-trees. In a range search, you could add every point within the rectangle of an R-tree without calculating any distances for those points. Of course, your tree uses minimum bounding rectangles so you could do that too, but a normal kd-tree couldn't. For a kNN search the main advantage of an R-tree is probably the ease with which you can rebalance the tree.

AW‎

Good point about the minimum bounding rectangles. Thinking about it some more, I suspect that the RS speed of a kd-tree that uses minimum bounding rectangles, would be extremely similar to that of a R-tree really. Sure, the partitioning is a bit different but both have reasonable enough partitioning and with the minimum bounding rectangles the search algorithm would basically be the same.

Yeah, that rebalancing aspect is what prompted me to do some r-tree experiments in the past.

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