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Efficient string similarity search on disks

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Abstract

String similarity search is a basic operation for various applications, such as data cleaning, spell checking, bioinformatics and information integration. Memory based q-gram inverted indexes fail to support string similarity search over large scale string datasets due to the memory limitation, and it can no longer work if the data size grows beyond the memory size. In the era of big data, large string dataset are quite common. Existing external memory method, Behm-Index, only supports length-filter and prefix filter. This paper proposes LPA-Index to reduce I/O cost for better query response time, and LPA-Index is a disk resident index which suffers no limitation on data size compared to memory size. LPA-Index supports multiple filters to reduce query candidates effectively, and it adaptively reads inverted lists during query processing for better I/O performance. Experiment results demonstrate the efficiency of LPA-Index and its advantages over existing state-of-art disk index Behm-Index with regard to I/O cost and query response time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Computation in Big Data Era - International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2015, Proceedings
EditorsHongzhi Wang, Wanxiang Che, Zhaowen Qiu, Zhongyuan Han, Junyu Lin, Haoliang Qi, Zeguang Lin, Leilei Kong
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages48-55
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783662462478
StatePublished - 2015
EventInternational Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2015 - Harbin, China
Duration: 10 Jan 201512 Jan 2015

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume503
ISSN (Print)1868-4238

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period10/01/1512/01/15

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