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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
0.00025331535
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 0.00027163517
360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020009936
534 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001680637
885 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013260551
929 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013020115
963 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012816649
1,061 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012213729
1,421 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010726757
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00010180038
1,654 Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services 2017 SIGMOD 9.9739611e-05
1,923 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.3750526e-05
1,933 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.3459285e-05
2,072 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.0864612e-05
2,144 Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to Support Approximate Queries Efficiently 2008 SIGMOD 8.9608583e-05
2,220 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8146984e-05
2,354 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5896515e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3679178e-05
2,944 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.828107e-05
3,255 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4890984e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3910669e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3300953e-05
3,501 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.2531528e-05
3,512 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2439455e-05
3,596 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1790375e-05
3,775 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 7.0272615e-05
3,816 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.0072547e-05
4,107 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.8026037e-05
4,147 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7803631e-05
4,439 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.5998035e-05
4,536 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.5557137e-05
4,571 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5286445e-05
4,736 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.4451961e-05
4,958 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.3394776e-05
5,112 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.268442e-05
5,207 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.2272365e-05
5,333 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.1750986e-05
5,444 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.1268526e-05
5,549 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.088104e-05
5,795 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.9926463e-05
5,912 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.9501002e-05
6,397 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 5.7989499e-05
7,709 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.4717883e-05
7,896 On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra 2005 PODS 5.4318255e-05
7,998 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 5.4104124e-05
8,219 Customizable and Scalable Fuzzy Join for Big Data 2019 VLDB 5.3761699e-05
9,126 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 5.22387e-05
9,788 On-the-Fly Token Similarity Joins in Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 5.1272311e-05
10,189 COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.0651993e-05
10,298 Local Filtering: Improving the Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections 2015 SIGMOD 5.0418674e-05
10,859 Pail: Efficient kNN Search on Set-Valued Attributes 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
29 Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules 1994 VLDB 0.0005121339
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.0003305531
161 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027718195
220 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00024344086
307 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021499031
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011702886
1,594 Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates 1997 VLDB 0.00010133792
1,618 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010056773
2,093 Selectivity Estimation For Boolean Queries 2000 PODS 9.0578876e-05
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