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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
0.00027151132
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 0.00020001237
534 On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016799
587 Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges 2007 PODS 0.00015927027
694 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014721161
885 Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 0.00013254509
929 Ed-Join: An Efficient Algorithm for Similarity Joins With Edit Distance Constraints 2008 VLDB 0.00013014029
965 Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012810695
1,249 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011342019
1,421 V-SMART-Join: A Scalable MapReduce Framework for All-Pair Similarity Joins of Multisets and Vectors 2012 VLDB 0.00010722146
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001017553
1,739 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.7448851e-05
1,922 ATLAS: A Probabilistic Algorithm for High Dimensional Similarity Search 2011 SIGMOD 9.3726231e-05
1,934 Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins 2012 VLDB 9.341845e-05
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
2,325 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6308459e-05
2,354 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5872598e-05
2,509 WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method 2011 SIGMOD 8.3675232e-05
2,513 An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques 2016 VLDB 8.3640659e-05
2,577 ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce 2014 VLDB 8.2699584e-05
2,923 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8482459e-05
2,945 Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins 2013 VLDB 7.8244366e-05
3,256 Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme 2011 SIGMOD 7.4855571e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3875743e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3266624e-05
3,501 An Efficient Filter for Approximate Membership Checking 2008 SIGMOD 7.2497317e-05
3,512 Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints 2009 SIGMOD 7.2405277e-05
3,598 Overlap Set Similarity Joins with Theoretical Guarantees 2018 SIGMOD 7.1756405e-05
3,811 On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join 2016 PODS 7.0061203e-05
3,817 Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints 2010 VLDB 7.0039415e-05
4,109 Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests 2019 VLDB 6.7994518e-05
4,147 Local Similarity Search for Unstructured Text 2016 SIGMOD 6.7771533e-05
4,275 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.6887374e-05
4,441 Incremental Maintenance of Length Normalized Indexes for Approximate String Matching 2009 SIGMOD 6.5966903e-05
4,496 Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations 2018 VLDB 6.5741786e-05
4,538 Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size 2009 VLDB 6.5526273e-05
4,573 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5257221e-05
4,737 Scalable Ad-hoc Entity Extraction from Text Collections 2008 VLDB 6.442156e-05
4,960 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.3365273e-05
4,972 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3300201e-05
5,115 SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search 2012 VLDB 6.2654746e-05
5,210 String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms 2013 SIGMOD 6.2243094e-05
5,314 On Link-based Similarity Join 2011 VLDB 6.1836062e-05
5,338 On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment 2010 SIGMOD 6.1722273e-05
5,449 Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search 2019 VLDB 6.123954e-05
5,551 Faerie: Efficient Filtering Algorithms for Approximate Dictionary-based Entity Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.0852227e-05
5,765 Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs: Question Understanding Via Template Decomposition 2018 VLDB 6.0002533e-05
5,797 Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) 2009 VLDB 5.9898117e-05
5,914 Dima: A Distributed In-Memory Similarity-Based Query Processing System 2017 VLDB 5.9472869e-05
6,122 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.8773159e-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 0.0005758001
57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00040095727
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00039440583
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00033040246
161 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027705594
162 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00027524669
201 Efficient set joins on similarity predicates 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025319937
230 Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces 2005 SIGMOD 0.00023861741
307 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021489374
595 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015791577
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011697392
1,619 Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010052059
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