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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
9695
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.0002743469
Overall Rank
169 | 98.85%
DOI
10.14778/1164135.1164221

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BibTeX Citation

@article{arasu_vldb06,
        title = {{Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins}},
        author = {Arasu, Arvind and Ganti, Venkatesh and Kaushik, Raghav},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {918--929},
        doi = {10.14778/1164135.1164221},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1164135.1164221},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
356 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020303289
528 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00017100838
574 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00016278855
779 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014092047
871 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013496531
911 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013283031
975 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012870645
1,248 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011498301
1,415 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010840141
1,560 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00010361222
1,701 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.9707165e-05
1,886 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.5358137e-05
1,935 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.4560124e-05
2,036 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.2782094e-05
2,186 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 9.0001436e-05
2,290 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.799251e-05
2,308 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.7738996e-05
2,459 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 8.550768e-05
2,501 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.4975661e-05
2,567 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 8.4098241e-05
3,040 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8262287e-05
3,041 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8254399e-05
3,193 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.649474e-05
3,356 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.490881e-05
3,442 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.4122197e-05
3,446 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.4087786e-05
3,474 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3859271e-05
3,724 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1715735e-05
3,731 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.1663952e-05
3,806 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 7.108802e-05
4,023 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.949387e-05
4,052 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.935988e-05
4,260 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.7984322e-05
4,359 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.7451753e-05
4,396 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.7268636e-05
4,450 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.6972929e-05
4,707 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.552423e-05
4,857 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.4752373e-05
4,984 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.412239e-05
4,992 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.4100657e-05
5,088 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.3673276e-05
5,134 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3532024e-05
5,186 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 6.3279474e-05
5,306 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.2731936e-05
5,412 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.2272563e-05
5,667 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 6.1279762e-05
5,671 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 6.1262839e-05
5,726 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.1079184e-05
5,996 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 6.0150613e-05
6,290 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.9253163e-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
21 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00056760516
54 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00040810225
58 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00040116748
107 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033511706
158 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00028199923
160 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.0002802209
200 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025597287
228 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023941271
306 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021839661
586 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016124396
1,151 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011938186
1,592 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010253457
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