SPIDER: Flexible Matching in Databases

Summary: SPIDER is a prototype for flexible string attribute value matching at scale in large databases. It outlines the guiding design principles, introduces the basic techniques embedded in the tool, and provides a description of the demo. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3704
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,544 | 12.74%
DOI: -

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125	Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free	2001	VLDB	0.00044847972
155	Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning	2003	SIGMOD	0.00040637896
4,026	Flexible String Matching Against Large Databases in Practice	2004	VLDB	6.5169976e-05

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