Abstract We develop a family of efficient plane-sweeping interval join algorithms for evaluating a wide range of interval predicates such as Allen’s relationships and parameterized relationships. Our technique is based on a framework, components of which can be flexibly combined in different manners to support the required interval relation. In temporal databases, our algorithms can exploit a well-known and flexible access method, the Timeline Index, thus expanding the set of operations it supports even further. Additionally, employing a compact data structure, the gapless hash map, we utilize the CPU cache efficiently. In an experimental evaluation, we show that our approach is several times faster and scales better than state-of-the-art techniques, while being much better suited for real-time event processing.

We develop an algorithm for efficiently joining relations on interval-based attributes with overlap predicates, which, for example, are commonly found in temporal databases. Using a new data structure and a lazy evaluation technique, we are able to achieve impressive performance gains by optimizing memory accesses exploiting features of modern CPU architectures. In an experimental evaluation with real-world datasets our algorithm is able to outperform the state-of-the-art by an order of magnitude.