Spatial joins find all pairs of spatial objects that satisfy a given spatial relationship. In this paper, we propose the transformation-based spatial partition join algorithm (TSPJ), a new spatial join algorithm that performs join in the transform space without using indexes. Since the existing algorithms deal with extents of spatial objects in the original space, they either need to replicate the spatial objects or have a relatively complex partition structure-resulting in degrading performance. In contrast, TSPJ transforms objects in the original space into points in the transform space and deals only with points having no extents. The transformation does not incur any additional overhead. Thus, our algorithm has advantages over existing ones in that it obviates the need for replicating spatial objects, and its partition structure is simple. As a result, it always has better performance compared with existing algorithms. Extensive experiments show that TSPJ improves performance by 20.5∼38.0% over the existing algorithms compared.