Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System
Summary: Dima is a distributed in-memory system enabling similarity search and join via an SQL extension for robust analytics. It uses adaptive selectable signatures with global/local indexes and Spark integration to enable scalable similarity search and join. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ji Sun (Tsinghua University)
- 2. Zeyuan Shang (Tsinghua University)
- 3. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
- 4. Dong Deng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Zhifeng Bao (RMIT University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{sun_vldb17,
title = {{Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System}},
author = {Sun, Ji and Shang, Zeyuan and Li, Guoliang and Deng, Dong and Bao, Zhifeng},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137810},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137810},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 4,617 | Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.604437e-05 |
| 6,105 | Optimizing In-memory Database Engine for AI-powered On-line Decision Augmentation Using Persistent Memory | 2021 | VLDB | 5.9743349e-05 |
| 7,493 | Human-in-the-loop Data Integration | 2017 | VLDB | 5.6046905e-05 |
| 9,979 | Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System | 2019 | VLDB | 5.1845938e-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 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1,886 | Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins | 2012 | VLDB | 9.5358137e-05 |
| 2,186 | String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation | 2014 | VLDB | 9.0001436e-05 |
| 3,474 | An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins | 2016 | VLDB | 7.3859271e-05 |
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