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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
6.1268526e-05
Overall Rank
5,444 | 63.40%
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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3,230 Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data 2020 VLDB 7.5056037e-05
4,688 Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.4697463e-05
5,126 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.261175e-05
7,833 Allign: Aligning All-Pair Near-Duplicate Passages in Long Texts 2021 SIGMOD 5.443666e-05
9,878 Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins 2019 VLDB 5.1176637e-05
10,859 Pail: Efficient kNN Search on Set-Valued Attributes 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,339 Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,759 A Two-Level Signature Scheme for Stable Set Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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 0.00057568153
56 M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces 1997 VLDB 0.00040370171
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
168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027163517
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025331535
227 Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories 2005 SIGMOD 0.0002393284
280 Multi-Probe LSH: Efficient Indexing for High-Dimensional Similarity Search 2007 VLDB 0.0002230467
306 On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance 2004 VLDB 0.00021575844
338 Locality-Sensitive Hashing Scheme Based on Dynamic Collision Counting 2012 SIGMOD 0.00020585187
562 SRS: Solving c-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensional Euclidean Space with a Tiny Index 2015 VLDB 0.00016335405
573 An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases 1995 VLDB 0.00016173338
601 Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015732701
886 The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality 1998 SIGMOD 0.0001325914
915 Querying and Mining of Time Series Data: Experimental Comparison of Representations and Distance Measures 2008 VLDB 0.00013099703
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
992 Bayesian Locality Sensitive Hashing for Fast Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 0.00012646771
1,061 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012213729
1,070 Warping Indexes with Envelope Transforms for Query by Humming 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012174775
1,133 Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance 2009 VLDB 0.00011898162
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
2,021 Distributed Trajectory Similarity Search 2017 VLDB 9.1719539e-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
2,196 DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 8.8780862e-05
2,220 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8146984e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3679178e-05
2,921 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8519256e-05
2,944 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.828107e-05
3,228 OASIS: An Online and Accurate Technique for Local-alignment Searches on Biological Sequences 2003 VLDB 7.5077929e-05
3,255 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4890984e-05
3,333 FTW: Fast Similarity Search under the Time Warping Distance 2005 PODS 7.4153527e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3910669e-05
3,369 Connected Substructure Similarity Search 2010 SIGMOD 7.3698379e-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
4,147 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7803631e-05
4,196 Efficient and Effective Similarity Search over Probabilistic Data based on Earth Mover's Distance 2010 VLDB 6.7421052e-05
4,571 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5286445e-05
5,533 Earth Mover’s Distance based Similarity Search at Scale 2014 VLDB 6.0923371e-05
6,097 Trajectory Similarity Join in Spatial Networks 2017 VLDB 5.887961e-05
6,305 Reference-Based Alignment in Large Sequence Databases 2009 VLDB 5.818151e-05
6,605 A Pivotal Prefix Based Filtering Algorithm for String Similarity Search 2014 SIGMOD 5.7367357e-05
6,627 Interactive Time Series Exploration Powered by the Marriage of Similarity Distances 2017 VLDB 5.7281902e-05
6,943 Indexing the Edges – A simple and yet efficient approach to high-dimensional indexing 2000 PODS 5.6380615e-05
7,442 Set-based Similarity Search for Time Series 2016 SIGMOD 5.5254761e-05
7,856 Similarity Search on Bregman Divergence: Towards Non-Metric Indexing 2009 VLDB 5.4399688e-05
8,961 ALAE: Accelerating Local Alignment with Affine Gap Exactly in Biosequence Databases 2012 VLDB 5.2497696e-05
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