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Efficient set joins on similarity predicates

Summary: General, scalable algorithm for set joins on similarity predicates (intersect size, Jaccard, cosine, edit distance) extending beyond simple containment. Inverted-index probing with staged optimizations, memory-efficient partitioning, and index compression enabling in-memory operation; generalizes to weighted/unweighted partial word overlap. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h47fff8a30c31223b
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00025319937
Overall Rank
201 | 98.66%
DOI
10.1145/1007568.1007652

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sarawagi_sigmod04,
        title = {{Efficient set joins on similarity predicates}},
        author = {Sarawagi, Sunita and Kirpal, Alok},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007652},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007652},
        year = {2004}
}

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168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027151132
360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020001237
534 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016799
885 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013254509
929 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013014029
965 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012810695
1,062 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012208031
1,421 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010722146
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001017553
1,655 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 9.9694129e-05
1,922 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.3726231e-05
1,934 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.341845e-05
2,074 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.0821759e-05
2,147 Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to Support Approximate Queries Efficiently 2008 SIGMOD 8.9566452e-05
2,223 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8105347e-05
2,354 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5872598e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3640659e-05
2,945 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8244366e-05
3,256 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4855571e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3875743e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3266624e-05
3,501 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.2497317e-05
3,512 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2405277e-05
3,598 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1756405e-05
3,777 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 7.0240115e-05
3,817 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.0039415e-05
4,109 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.7994518e-05
4,147 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7771533e-05
4,441 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.5966903e-05
4,538 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.5526273e-05
4,573 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5257221e-05
4,737 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.442156e-05
4,960 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.3365273e-05
5,115 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.2654746e-05
5,210 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.2243094e-05
5,338 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.1722273e-05
5,449 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.123954e-05
5,551 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.0852227e-05
5,797 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.9898117e-05
5,914 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.9472869e-05
6,400 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 5.7962311e-05
7,716 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.4692136e-05
7,900 On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra 2005 PODS 5.4292541e-05
8,003 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 5.4078515e-05
8,226 Customizable and Scalable Fuzzy Join for Big Data 2019 VLDB 5.3736355e-05
9,136 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 5.2213971e-05
9,794 On-the-Fly Token Similarity Joins in Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 5.1248055e-05
10,192 COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.0628015e-05
10,303 Local Filtering: Improving the Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections 2015 SIGMOD 5.0394806e-05
10,868 Pail: Efficient kNN Search on Set-Valued Attributes 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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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
29 Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules 1994 VLDB 0.00051189413
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033040246
161 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027705594
220 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00024333068
307 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021489374
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011697392
1,594 Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates 1997 VLDB 0.00010129129
1,619 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010052059
2,094 Selectivity Estimation For Boolean Queries 2000 PODS 9.0536495e-05
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