Similarity join in distance spaces constrained by the metric postulates is the necessary complement of more famous similarity range and the nearest neighbors search primitives. However, the quadratic computational complexity of similarity joins prevents from applications on large data collections. We first study the underlying principles of such joins and suggest three categories of implementation strategies based on filtering, partitioning, or similarity range searching. Then we study an application of the D-index to implement the most promising alternative of range searching. Though also this approach is not able to eliminate the intrinsic quadratic complexity of similarity joins, significant performance improvements are confirmed by experiments. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
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Dohnal, V., Gennaro, C., Savino, P., & Zezula, P. (2003). Similarity join in metric spaces. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2633, 452–467. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36618-0_32
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