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		| Paper: | 
		Federating Datasets with Spatial Joins | 
	 
	
		| Volume: | 
		314, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII | 
	 
	
		| Page: | 
		189 | 
	 
	
		| Authors: | 
		Page, C.G. | 
	 
	
	
		| Abstract: | 
		Federating or combining astronomical datasets frequently leads to new discoveries, for example when cross-matching source catalogs. In database terms this requires a spatial join between tables. Two algorithms for spatial joins (pixel-code and R-tree join) were compared, and the performance of three DBMS (DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) was evaluated using large source catalogs. | 
	 
	
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