Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases

Summary: SimJoin exploits join-window reuse to speed up approximate similarity joins in vector databases, beating per-point range queries. Join-window order optimization, k-similarity support, and a proximity-graph index; experiments show large speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7291
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.427232e-05
Overall Rank: 8,899 | 38.10%
DOI: 10.1145/3725403

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212	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00033913475
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2,324	RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2024	SIGMOD	9.0326444e-05
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3,833	Output-optimal Parallel Algorithms for Similarity Joins	2017	PODS	6.7173578e-05
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7,765	Cache-oblivious High-performance Similarity Join	2019	SIGMOD	4.6572085e-05

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