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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
0.00013014029
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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2,074 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.0821759e-05
2,223 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8105347e-05
3,256 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4855571e-05
3,512 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2405277e-05
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5,190 Fast Subtrajectory Similarity Search in Road Networks under Weighted Edit Distance Constraints 2020 VLDB 6.2341162e-05
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6,400 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 5.7962311e-05
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7,208 Boosting Graph Similarity Search through Pre-Computation 2021 SIGMOD 5.5836037e-05
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7,625 SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 5.4806154e-05
7,716 Scalable Column Concept Determination for Web Tables Using Large Knowledge Bases 2013 VLDB 5.4692136e-05
7,910 Near-Duplicate Text Alignment with One Permutation Hashing 2024 SIGMOD 5.426303e-05
9,080 Privacy and Accuracy-Aware AI/ML Model Deduplication 2025 SIGMOD 5.2258409e-05
9,136 Balance-Aware Distributed String Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2019 VLDB 5.2213971e-05
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9,886 META: An Efficient Matching-Based Method for Error-Tolerant Autocompletion 2016 VLDB 5.115241e-05
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11,347 Extensible and Robust Evaluation of Similarity Queries 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,503 Similarity Joins of Sparse Features 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,621 Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,819 TokenJoin: Efficient Filtering for Set Similarity Join with Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching 2023 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,234 ZigZag: Supporting Similarity Queries on Vector Space Models 2018 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.0005758001
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033040246
168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027151132
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025319937
1,062 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012208031
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011697392
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001017553
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
1,998 Epsilon Grid Order: An Algorithm for the Similarity Join on Massive High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 9.2123795e-05
2,969 Extending Q-Grams to Estimate Selectivity of String Matching with Low Edit Distance 2007 VLDB 7.7993378e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3266624e-05
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