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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
9505
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00029950264
Overall Rank
264 | 98.17%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 78 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
442 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00023095823
507 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00021474096
630 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00018942778
942 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00015143877
1,185 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013432692
1,232 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013133604
1,338 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00012501156
1,396 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012215253
1,530 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00011483613
1,775 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010584816
1,947 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 9.9963826e-05
2,012 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.8007613e-05
2,077 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.6038296e-05
2,387 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 8.9075095e-05
2,588 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 8.4872437e-05
2,729 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.2175463e-05
2,779 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.1314377e-05
3,057 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.6458287e-05
3,139 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 7.4915127e-05
3,209 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 7.3793885e-05
3,258 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3129307e-05
3,294 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.2590482e-05
3,461 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.0696567e-05
3,583 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 6.944299e-05
3,779 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 6.7709545e-05
3,869 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 6.6776679e-05
4,041 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 6.5048916e-05
4,215 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 6.3464157e-05
4,247 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.3180334e-05
4,350 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 6.2576191e-05
4,397 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.2142485e-05
4,682 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 5.9949001e-05
4,752 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 5.9396804e-05
4,781 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 5.9245435e-05
4,808 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 5.9040739e-05
4,871 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 5.8568724e-05
4,878 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 5.8537044e-05
4,992 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 5.7750116e-05
5,071 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 5.7122974e-05
5,152 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 5.6550754e-05
5,180 SilkMoth: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 5.6377866e-05
5,222 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 5.6180462e-05
5,375 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 5.5407861e-05
5,382 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 5.5358382e-05
5,388 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 5.5342724e-05
5,544 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 5.4481372e-05
5,892 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.2829767e-05
5,905 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.2746158e-05
6,080 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 5.219249e-05
6,559 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.00593e-05
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Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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 0.00092569117
34 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00076824554
67 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00061419648
125 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00044946098
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041081536
155 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00040666376
228 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00032266415
248 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00030888982
279 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00029141798
677 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00018250681
1,043 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00014468616
1,757 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010659352
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