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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
3565
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00025900995
Overall Rank
197 | 98.64%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
173 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027475177
353 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020497819
538 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016945549
850 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013661662
887 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013452998
1,012 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012747701
1,026 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012661091
1,403 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010985239
1,548 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001044945
1,631 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 0.0001023042
1,938 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.5248884e-05
2,008 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.3978374e-05
2,037 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.3510621e-05
2,055 Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to Support Approximate Queries Efficiently 2008 SIGMOD 9.3220009e-05
2,158 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 9.1187342e-05
2,291 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.8798097e-05
2,683 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3233182e-05
2,969 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.9604274e-05
3,156 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.7577179e-05
3,329 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.5731286e-05
3,397 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.5171701e-05
3,399 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.5167701e-05
3,401 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.5137307e-05
3,676 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 7.2699209e-05
3,697 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.2570567e-05
3,702 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.2540345e-05
3,966 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 7.0599892e-05
3,995 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 7.0412373e-05
4,312 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.8382796e-05
4,418 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.7764944e-05
4,641 SilkMoth: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.6531306e-05
4,821 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.5602214e-05
4,919 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.5100672e-05
4,943 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.4989078e-05
5,072 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.4430928e-05
5,263 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.3625471e-05
5,347 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.3242768e-05
5,595 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 6.2222634e-05
5,605 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.2161107e-05
6,202 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 6.0164826e-05
7,360 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 5.6924971e-05
7,467 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.6730268e-05
7,607 On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra 2005 PODS 5.6426959e-05
7,716 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 5.6191266e-05
7,951 Customizable and Scalable Fuzzy Join for Big Data 2019 VLDB 5.5746088e-05
9,464 On-the-Fly Token Similarity Joins in Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 5.3255951e-05
9,826 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 5.2648912e-05
9,848 COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.2617062e-05
9,934 Local Filtering: Improving the Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections 2015 SIGMOD 5.2359544e-05
11,307 TokenJoin: Efficient Filtering for Set Similarity Join with Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching 2023 VLDB 5.1725247e-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
28 Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules 1994 VLDB 0.00052975904
104 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033896205
158 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00028527169
211 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00025098744
303 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.0002203021
1,136 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00012106175
1,537 Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates 1997 VLDB 0.00010489977
1,558 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010408688
2,021 Selectivity Estimation For Boolean Queries 2000 PODS 9.3794134e-05
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