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Has anyone had a similar "extreme slow" experience using "Select by location" (Toolbox) and "Spatial query" tool?

I've used both for selecting some points inside a polygon. The data was in SHPs and the point-dataset has 80.000 points (with a lot of attributes) - the poly-dataset is small.

The result was "within" ~14.000 points. QGIS 2.8 and 2.13 need around 10min for the task. I did the same now with ArcGIS 10.3 and it took 4-5 seconds.

Does someone know a better (faster) solution within QGIS ?

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    Not completely sure but what about creating a spatial index by either Layer Properties > General > Create spatial index or Vector > Data Management Tools > Create Spatial Index... and then running the tools?
    – Joseph
    Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 15:14
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    Hi! Both datasets have already a spatial index... doing it natively SQL-based with Spatialite is also quite fast. The in QGIS used algorithm seems to be slow compared to ArcGIS or SQLite/Spatial.
    – Flo Xi
    Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 15:55

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I had similar problems to this, and found that: - The slow issue only occurred on my computer, but was fine on other computers, therefore potentially a memory leakage issue on my computer - The issue fixed itself when I upgraded to QGIS 2.12.3

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    Did it on 3 different machines and OSes (QGIS 2.8 on Win, QGIS 2.13 on Win and QGIS 2.10 on Linux/Fedora) - always the same...
    – Flo Xi
    Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 6:38

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