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Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints

Summary: Ed-Join reframes edit-distance similarity joins around mismatching, rather than matching, q-grams. It derives location- and content-aware lower bounds and uses them for stronger candidate filtering, substantially outperforming prior methods on large real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
haf3bba877597e4c1
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00013020115
Overall Rank
929 | 93.76%
DOI
10.14778/1454159.1454260

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BibTeX Citation

@article{xiao_vldb08,
        title = {{Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints}},
        author = {Xiao, Chuan and Wang, Wei and Lin, Xuemin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {933--944},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454260},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454260},
        year = {2008}
}

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2,072 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.0864612e-05
2,220 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8146984e-05
3,255 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4890984e-05
3,512 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2439455e-05
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4,493 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.5772891e-05
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5,188 Fast Subtrajectory Similarity Search in Road Networks under Weighted Edit Distance Constraints 2020 VLDB 6.2370687e-05
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7,206 Boosting Graph Similarity Search through Pre-Computation 2021 SIGMOD 5.5862482e-05
7,560 Cache-oblivious High-performance Similarity Join 2019 SIGMOD 5.4962229e-05
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7,906 Near-Duplicate Text Alignment with One Permutation Hashing 2024 SIGMOD 5.428873e-05
9,071 Privacy and Accuracy-Aware AI/ML Model Deduplication 2025 SIGMOD 5.2283159e-05
9,126 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 5.22387e-05
9,262 Comparative evaluation of entity resolution approaches with FEVER 2009 VLDB 5.2056825e-05
9,879 META: An Efficient Matching-Based Method for Error-Tolerant Autocompletion 2016 VLDB 5.1176637e-05
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11,339 Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,497 Similarity Joins of Sparse Features 2024 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,615 Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,813 TokenJoin: Efficient Filtering for Set Similarity Join with Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,228 ZigZag: Supporting Similarity Queries on Vector Space Models 2018 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00057568153
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.0003305531
168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027163517
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025331535
1,061 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012213729
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011702886
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00010180038
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
1,996 Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 9.216723e-05
2,967 Extending Q-Grams to Estimate Selectivity of String Matching with Low Edit Distance 2007 VLDB 7.8029216e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3300953e-05
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