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Efficient set joins on similarity predicates

Summary: General, scalable algorithm for set joins on similarity predicates (intersect size, Jaccard, cosine, edit distance) extending beyond simple containment. Inverted-index probing with staged optimizations, memory-efficient partitioning, and index compression enabling in-memory operation; generalizes to weighted/unweighted partial word overlap. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3564
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00030661988
Overall Rank
250 | 98.27%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
266 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00029718727
447 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022900171
509 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00021409518
936 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.0001521549
1,202 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00013326298
1,234 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013122499
1,396 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012204748
1,533 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00011471971
1,715 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010803271
2,024 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.7519678e-05
2,175 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 9.3644117e-05
2,193 Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to Support Approximate Queries Efficiently 2008 SIGMOD 9.3178557e-05
2,376 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 8.9424361e-05
2,592 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 8.4795761e-05
2,740 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.1980628e-05
2,779 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.1320575e-05
3,267 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3058429e-05
3,459 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 7.072508e-05
3,514 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.0226998e-05
3,578 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 6.9503858e-05
3,774 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 6.7757301e-05
3,868 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 6.6822543e-05
4,050 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 6.4953612e-05
4,216 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 6.3521675e-05
4,250 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.3241139e-05
4,261 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 6.31244e-05
4,353 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 6.263585e-05
4,402 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.2195162e-05
4,873 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 5.8602304e-05
4,988 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 5.783959e-05
5,073 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 5.7177424e-05
5,151 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 5.6609851e-05
5,179 SilkMoth: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 5.6428428e-05
5,220 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 5.6216111e-05
5,232 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 5.6136151e-05
5,379 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 5.5405989e-05
5,536 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 5.4532734e-05
5,887 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.2879769e-05
6,074 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 5.2242306e-05
6,605 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 4.9965703e-05
7,588 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 4.7030914e-05
7,668 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 4.6834075e-05
7,724 On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra 2005 PODS 4.6673705e-05
7,847 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 4.6365272e-05
8,137 Customizable and Scalable Fuzzy Join for Big Data 2019 VLDB 4.5774794e-05
9,439 On-the-Fly Token Similarity Joins in Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 4.3423824e-05
9,832 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 4.2751057e-05
9,850 COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics 2021 VLDB 4.2721228e-05
9,932 Local Filtering: Improving the Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections 2015 SIGMOD 4.2500258e-05
11,305 TokenJoin: Efficient Filtering for Set Similarity Join with Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching 2023 VLDB 4.1945683e-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
36 Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules 1994 VLDB 0.00076161096
125 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00044847972
152 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00040963225
155 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00040637896
280 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00029113044
1,048 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00014457009
1,562 Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates 1997 VLDB 0.00011356744
1,763 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010638276
2,171 Selectivity Estimation For Boolean Queries 2000 PODS 9.3807165e-05
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