Scaling Similarity Joins over Tree-Structured Data
Summary: Dynamic decomposition of tree objects into threshold-guided subgraphs, enabling pruning without computing full tree edit distance when no common subgraph. Two-layer subgraph index yields scalable similarity joins, delivering up to an order-of-magnitude speedup over prior methods on real and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yu Tang (EPFL; University of Hong Kong)
- 2. Yilun Cai (University of Hong Kong)
- 3. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong)
BibTeX Citation
@article{tang_vldb15,
title = {{Scaling Similarity Joins over Tree-Structured Data}},
author = {Tang, Yu and Cai, Yilun and Mamoulis, Nikos},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {11},
doi = {10.14778/2809974.2809976},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2809974.2809976},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,832 | A Scalable Index for Top-k Subtree Similarity Queries | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.7596335e-05 |
| 7,111 | Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.69924e-05 |
| 7,476 | SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins | 2023 | VLDB | 5.6090634e-05 |
| 8,508 | JEDI: These aren't the JSON documents you're looking for... | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.4123872e-05 |
| 10,951 | Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,886 | Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins | 2012 | VLDB | 9.5358137e-05 |
| 2,423 | Algebraic Properties of Bag Data Types | 1991 | VLDB | 8.6016807e-05 |
| 3,047 | Similarity Evaluation on Tree-structured Data | 2005 | SIGMOD | 7.8155543e-05 |
| 3,165 | RTED: A Robust Algorithm for the Tree Edit Distance | 2012 | VLDB | 7.6759052e-05 |
| 3,522 | A Partition-Based Approach to Structure Similarity Search | 2014 | VLDB | 7.3491042e-05 |
| 6,947 | Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.7309645e-05 |
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