SimDB: A Similarity-aware Database System

Summary: SimDB provides similarity-aware operators as first-class DBMS operators. Architectural extensions enable integration with regular and other similarity-aware operators, and cost-based optimization is extended via equivalence rules for similarity queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4421
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,442 | 14.64%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807330

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Authors

1. Yasin N. Silva (Purdue University)
2. Ahmed M. Aly (Purdue University)
3. Walid G. Aref (Purdue University)
4. Per-Ake Larson (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{silva_sigmod10,
        title = {{SimDB: A Similarity-aware Database System}},
        author = {Silva, Yasin N. and Aly, Ahmed M. and Aref, Walid G. and Larson, Per-Ake},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807330},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807330},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,659	Spatial Queries with Two kNN Predicates	2012	VLDB	5.3904242e-05
13,672	Exploiting Database Similarity Joins for Metric Spaces	2012	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
1,993	Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data	2001	SIGMOD	9.3421788e-05
2,103	Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to Support Approximate Queries Efficiently	2008	SIGMOD	9.1621686e-05
3,353	Efficient EMD-based Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases via Flexible Dimensionality Reduction	2008	SIGMOD	7.492706e-05

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