Sparkly: A Simple yet Surprisingly Strong TF/IDF Blocker for Entity Matching

Summary: Sparkly: a distributed, share-nothing top-k TF/IDF blocker built on Lucene/Spark with automatic attribute and tokenizer selection for entity matching. Outperforms eight state-of-the-art blockers on recall/output-size/runtime, advocating TF/IDF and top-k blocking as strong, scalable baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13014
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.8171662e-05
Overall Rank: 7,135 | 50.42%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583163

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9,854	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	4.2652623e-05
10,040	3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,275	Balancing the Blend: An Experimental Analysis of Trade-offs in Hybrid Search	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,279	ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,625	Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-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
155	Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning	2003	SIGMOD	0.00040666376
219	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00033354456
293	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028661817
641	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018759417
705	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017779048
740	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.00017358024
2,176	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	9.3729351e-05
3,469	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	7.0629476e-05
4,641	Algorithmic Aspects of Parallel Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	6.0215749e-05
5,388	Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples	2021	SIGMOD	5.5342724e-05
6,750	Entity Matching Meets Data Science: A Progress Report from the Magellan Project	2019	SIGMOD	4.936137e-05
11,747	CloudMatcher: A Hands-Off Cloud/Crowd Service for Entity Matching	2018	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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