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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
0.00027475177
Overall Rank
173 | 98.80%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 78 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
353 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020497819
538 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016945549
557 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00016599507
771 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014215821
850 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013661662
887 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013452998
1,012 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012747701
1,279 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011448343
1,403 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010985239
1,548 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001044945
1,676 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010121328
1,938 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.5248884e-05
2,008 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.3978374e-05
2,037 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.3510621e-05
2,158 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 9.1187342e-05
2,219 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 8.9998232e-05
2,291 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.8798097e-05
2,433 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6525126e-05
2,534 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 8.520571e-05
2,683 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3233182e-05
2,969 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.9604274e-05
2,971 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.95959e-05
3,156 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.7577179e-05
3,329 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.5731286e-05
3,397 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.5171701e-05
3,399 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.5167701e-05
3,401 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.5137307e-05
3,697 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.2570567e-05
3,702 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.2540345e-05
3,966 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 7.0599892e-05
3,995 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 7.0412373e-05
4,204 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.9001164e-05
4,312 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.8382796e-05
4,333 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.8301851e-05
4,418 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.7764944e-05
4,618 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 6.6665536e-05
4,641 SilkMoth: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.6531306e-05
4,821 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.5602214e-05
4,919 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.5100672e-05
4,943 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.4989078e-05
5,072 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.4430928e-05
5,088 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.4348674e-05
5,210 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 6.3856427e-05
5,263 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.3625471e-05
5,347 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.3242768e-05
5,595 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 6.2222634e-05
5,597 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 6.221166e-05
5,605 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.2161107e-05
5,898 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 6.1115843e-05
6,202 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 6.0164826e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
23 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00055560094
56 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00040582148
58 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00040296829
104 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033896205
158 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00028527169
160 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00028347075
197 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025900995
231 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00024065496
303 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.0002203021
605 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015955035
1,136 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00012106175
1,558 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010408688
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