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Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins

Summary: Exact set-similarity join (SSJoin) algorithms for cross-collection sets. First to achieve both exact results and deterministic performance guarantees, surpassing prior probabilistic-guarantee methods; validated on real and synthetic datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hc4582a31a4fff87e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00027163517
Overall Rank
168 | 98.88%
DOI
10.14778/1164135.1164221

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BibTeX Citation

@article{arasu_vldb06,
        title = {{Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins}},
        author = {Arasu, Arvind and Ganti, Venkatesh and Kaushik, Raghav},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {918--929},
        doi = {10.14778/1164135.1164221},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1164135.1164221},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020009936
534 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001680637
587 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00015933201
694 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014727089
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
1,247 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011346515
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
1,737 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.7494976e-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
2,220 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.8146984e-05
2,323 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6348884e-05
2,354 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5896515e-05
2,508 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 8.371338e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3679178e-05
2,577 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 8.2738285e-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
3,255 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
3,809 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 7.0089846e-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
4,274 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.6918599e-05
4,439 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.5998035e-05
4,493 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.5772891e-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
4,970 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3329595e-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
5,309 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 6.1865348e-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
5,764 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 6.0030951e-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
6,121 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.8800995e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 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
57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00040108301
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.000394583
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
162 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00027536748
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025331535
230 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023871933
307 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021499031
595 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015798582
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011702886
1,618 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010056773
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