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Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search

Summary: Pigeonring strengthens pigeonhole-based filtering for thresholded similarity search by constraining item counts across multiple ring-organized partitions. A universal framework and minor algorithmic modifications deliver faster candidate generation and superior performance on real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h7c90e0864bc3ba92
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
6.123954e-05
Overall Rank
5,449 | 63.38%
DOI
10.14778/3275536.3275539
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BibTeX Citation

@article{qin_vldb19,
        title = {{Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search}},
        author = {Qin, Jianbin and Xiao, Chuan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {28--44},
        doi = {10.14778/3275536.3275539},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275536.3275539},
        year = {2019}
}

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3,232 Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data 2020 VLDB 7.5029541e-05
4,690 Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.4667478e-05
5,129 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.2582129e-05
7,837 Allign: Aligning All-Pair Near-Duplicate Passages in Long Texts 2021 SIGMOD 5.4410891e-05
9,885 Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins 2019 VLDB 5.115241e-05
10,868 Pail: Efficient kNN Search on Set-Valued Attributes 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,347 Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,765 A Two-Level Signature Scheme for Stable Set Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Showing 50 of 52 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.0005758001
56 M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces 1997 VLDB 0.00040363819
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
168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027151132
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025319937
227 Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023924262
278 Multi-Probe LSH: Efficient Indexing for High-Dimensional Similarity Search 2007 VLDB 0.00022310642
306 On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance 2004 VLDB 0.00021565993
338 Locality-Sensitive Hashing Scheme Based on Dynamic Collision Counting 2012 SIGMOD 0.00020600264
562 SRS: Solving c-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Euclidean Space with a Tiny Index 2015 VLDB 0.00016350316
573 An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases 1995 VLDB 0.0001616577
601 Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015725619
886 The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality 1998 SIGMOD 0.00013253709
916 Querying and Mining of Time Series Data: Experimental Comparison of Representations and Distance Measures 2008 VLDB 0.00013093656
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
990 Bayesian Locality Sensitive Hashing for Fast Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 0.00012643446
1,062 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012208031
1,071 Warping Indexes with Envelope Transforms for Query by Humming 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012169176
1,133 Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance 2009 VLDB 0.00011892544
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
2,023 Distributed Trajectory Similarity Search 2017 VLDB 9.167612e-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
2,198 DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 8.8738834e-05
2,223 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8105347e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3640659e-05
2,923 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8482459e-05
2,945 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8244366e-05
3,230 OASIS: An Online and Accurate Technique for Local-alignment Searches on Biological Sequences 2003 VLDB 7.5042394e-05
3,256 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4855571e-05
3,335 FTW: Fast Similarity Search under the Time Warping Distance 2005 PODS 7.4118583e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3875743e-05
3,369 Connected Substructure Similarity Search 2010 SIGMOD 7.3663492e-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
4,147 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7771533e-05
4,195 Efficient and Effective Similarity Search over Probabilistic Data based on Earth Mover's Distance 2010 VLDB 6.7391674e-05
4,573 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5257221e-05
5,537 Earth Mover’s Distance based Similarity Search at Scale 2014 VLDB 6.0894594e-05
6,099 Trajectory Similarity Join in Spatial Networks 2017 VLDB 5.8851737e-05
6,309 Reference-Based Alignment in Large Sequence Databases 2009 VLDB 5.815405e-05
6,608 A Pivotal Prefix Based Filtering Algorithm for String Similarity Search 2014 SIGMOD 5.73402e-05
6,631 Interactive Time Series Exploration Powered by the Marriage of Similarity Distances 2017 VLDB 5.7254786e-05
6,945 Indexing the Edges – A simple and yet efficient approach to high-dimensional indexing 2000 PODS 5.6357936e-05
7,445 Set-based Similarity Search for Time Series 2016 SIGMOD 5.5228945e-05
7,860 Similarity Search on Bregman Divergence: Towards Non-Metric Indexing 2009 VLDB 5.4373938e-05
8,971 ALAE: Accelerating Local Alignment with Affine Gap Exactly in Biosequence Databases 2012 VLDB 5.2472845e-05
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