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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
0.00027077763
Overall Rank
169 | 98.87%
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)

Showing 50 of 80 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
359 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00019963275
535 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016768308
590 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00015876538
679 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014802
886 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013215874
934 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00012973416
966 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012777679
1,251 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.0001132553
1,424 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010694144
1,582 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001015019
1,751 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.7128647e-05
1,928 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.3476482e-05
1,941 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.3141839e-05
2,084 Bed-Tree: An All-Purpose Index Structure for String Similarity Search Based on Edit Distance 2010 SIGMOD 9.0533042e-05
2,235 String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation 2014 VLDB 8.7832223e-05
2,271 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.7110698e-05
2,362 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5601252e-05
2,514 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3446573e-05
2,518 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 8.3402791e-05
2,581 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 8.2491224e-05
2,933 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.827041e-05
2,957 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.799694e-05
3,270 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4613275e-05
3,359 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3640394e-05
3,412 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3073062e-05
3,511 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.22602e-05
3,522 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2167201e-05
3,604 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1548073e-05
3,774 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 7.0102162e-05
3,822 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 6.9814064e-05
4,080 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.8020845e-05
4,167 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7547438e-05
4,282 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.6712965e-05
4,462 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.5751733e-05
4,515 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.5529885e-05
4,551 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.5314641e-05
4,584 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5070459e-05
4,756 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.4210101e-05
4,981 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.3161219e-05
4,994 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3099657e-05
5,135 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.245475e-05
5,233 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.2049921e-05
5,331 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 6.1632022e-05
5,348 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.1551499e-05
5,467 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.1037173e-05
5,566 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.0651335e-05
5,779 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 5.9804127e-05
5,811 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.9701598e-05
5,923 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.9283659e-05
6,136 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.8578818e-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 0.00057610161
57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.0003999751
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00039343755
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00032945275
162 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027626077
164 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00027451323
202 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025244506
231 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023797615
308 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.0002143466
597 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015742369
1,173 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011659702
1,628 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010020209
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