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An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques

Summary: Extensive evaluation of seven set-similarity join algorithms reveals verification—not filtering—as the overlooked bottleneck: inspecting a few elements often beats sophisticated filters. Prefix filtering remains central, with AllPairs still competitive despite broadly similar performance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11541
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.4975661e-05
Overall Rank
2,501 | 82.85%
DOI
10.14778/2947618.2947620

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BibTeX Citation

@article{mann_vldb16,
        title = {{An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques}},
        author = {Mann, Willi and Augsten, Nikolaus and Bouros, Panagiotis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {9},
        pages = {636},
        doi = {10.14778/2947618.2947620},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2947618.2947620},
        year = {2016}
}

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779 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014092047
2,216 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.9374127e-05
2,541 Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science 2018 VLDB 8.4500033e-05
3,040 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8262287e-05
3,310 Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data 2020 VLDB 7.5363562e-05
3,724 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1715735e-05
4,023 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.949387e-05
4,260 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.7984322e-05
5,726 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.1079184e-05
7,492 Scalable Distributed Inverted List Indexes in Disaggregated Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.6047664e-05
8,508 JEDI: These aren't the JSON documents you're looking for... 2022 SIGMOD 5.4123872e-05
8,733 FINEX: A Fast Index for Exact & Flexible Density-Based Clustering 2023 SIGMOD 5.3766157e-05
9,317 Set Similarity Search for Skewed Data 2018 PODS 5.289545e-05
10,533 SeDA: Bridging the Gap between Efficient Syntactic and Precise Semantic Search of Similar Passages in Large Text Corpora 2026 VLDB 5.093636e-05
10,567 FB*: A Compact Index for Efficient and Exact Density-based Clustering 2026 VLDB 5.093636e-05
10,951 Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,149 Similarity Joins of Sparse Features 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,181 Low-Latency Adaptive Distributed Stream Join System Based on a Flexible Join Model 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,293 Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,447 A Two-Level Signature Scheme for Stable Set Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,504 TokenJoin: Efficient Filtering for Set Similarity Join with Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching 2023 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,702 LES3: Learning-based Exact Set Similarity Search 2021 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,929 ZigZag: Supporting Similarity Queries on Vector Space Models 2018 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
21 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00056760516
169 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.0002743469
200 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025597287
356 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020303289
975 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012870645
991 Bayesian Locality Sensitive Hashing for Fast Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 0.00012793339
1,415 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010840141
2,186 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 9.0001436e-05
3,041 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8254399e-05
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