Patent ID: 8335783

Claim:
A method implemented and programmed within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and processed by a processor, the processor configured to execute the method, comprising: designating, via the processor, particular processing nodes in a distributed database system, each designated processing node forming a single minimum bounding rectangle of that designated processing node's MBR Tree (R-Tree) having spatial data; merging, via the processor, the MBR's returned from each particular processing node into a single system-wide MBR; reconfiguring, via the processor, the single system-wide MBR into equally sized cells; creating, via the processor, a spatial statistical context block (SSCB) from the reconfigured system-wide MBR; and broadcasting, via the processor, the SSCB out to each of the particular processing nodes for population by each of the particular processing nodes with statistics for spatial data identified in each of the particular processing node's R-Tree.