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Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins

Summary: Exact set-similarity join (SSJoin) algorithms for cross-collection sets. First to achieve both exact results and deterministic performance guarantees, surpassing prior probabilistic-guarantee methods; validated on real and synthetic datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9504
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00029718727
Overall Rank
266 | 98.16%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 78 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
447 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022900171
509 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00021409518
627 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00018959005
936 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.0001521549
1,187 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013443639
1,234 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013122499
1,345 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00012468408
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
1,944 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010004608
2,024 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.7519678e-05
2,073 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.6142791e-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
3,140 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.4841763e-05
3,141 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 7.4829448e-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
3,490 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.0465856e-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
4,353 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
4,684 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.0006406e-05
4,775 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 5.9315784e-05
4,808 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 5.908896e-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
4,995 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 5.7787414e-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
5,365 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 5.5461187e-05
5,379 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 5.5405989e-05
5,434 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 5.5045402e-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
5,902 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.2796864e-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
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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
18 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00092385438
34 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00076637636
67 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00061348205
125 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00044847972
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041055843
155 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00040637896
229 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00032242633
250 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00030661988
280 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00029113044
678 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00018253213
1,048 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00014457009
1,763 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010638276
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