Publications

FESTIval is completely described in the following journal paper:

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. FESTIval: A versatile framework for conducting experimental evaluations of spatial indices. MethodsX, vol. 7, 2020, 100695, 2020.

FESTIval has also been employed to evaluate techniques for indexing spatial on flash-based Solid State Drives:

• Carniel, A. C.; Roumelis, G.; Ciferri, R. R.; Vassilakopoulos, M.; Corral, A.; Aguiar, C. D. Porting Disk-based Spatial Index Structures to Flash-based Solid State Drives. GeoInformatica, 2021 - accepted for publication.

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. A generic and efficient framework for flash-aware spatial indexing. Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2018.09.004, 2018.

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. A Generic and Efficient Framework for Spatial Indexing on Flash-based Solid State Drives. In Proceedings of the 21^st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), p. 229-243, 2017.

FESTIval has been used as the main tool to understand the impact of SSDs on the spatial indexing context, as described in:

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. The Performance Relation of Spatial Indexing on Hard Disk Drives and Solid State Drives. In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics, p. 263-174, 2016.

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. Analyzing the Performance of Spatial Indices on Hard Disk Drives and Flash-based Solid State Drives. Journal of Information and Data Management 8 (1), p. 34-49, 2017.

FESTIval also provides support for flash simulators (e.g., FlashDBSim) when analyzing the performance of spatial indices, such as reported in:

• Carniel, A. C.; Silva, T. B.; Bonicenha, K. L. S.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. Analyzing the Performance of Spatial Indices on Flash Memories using a Flash Simulator. In Proceedings of the 32^nd Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), p. 40-51, 2017.
• Carniel, A. C.; Silva, T. B.; Ciferri, C. D. A. Understanding the Applicability of Flash Simulators on the Experimental Evaluation of Spatial Indices. In 9^th Annual Non-volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW), p. 1-2, 2018.

In order to facilitate the execution of experiments, FESTIval provides default spatial datasets. They are specified in:

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. Spatial Datasets for Conducting Experimental Evaluations of Spatial Indices. In Proceedings of the 32^nd Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD) - Workshop Dataset Showcase, p. 286-295, 2017.

Originally, FESTIval has been developed in the context of the Ph.D. work of Anderson C. Carniel. The main goals of this Ph.D. work are described in:

• Carniel, A. C. Spatial Indexing on Flash-based Solid State Drives. In Proceedings of the VLDB 2018 PhD Workshop, p. 1-4, 2018.
• Access his Ph.D. dissertation here.

The first prototype of FESTIval was published in:

• Carniel, A. C.; Ciferri, R. R.; Ciferri, C. D. A. Experimental Evaluation of Spatial Indices with FESTIval. In Proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 31^st Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), p. 123–128, 2016.

This version only encompasses the implementation of the following disk-based spatial indices: the R-tree and the R*-tree.