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MosaicJoin: Efficient Semantic Join Discovery for Data Lakes

other · 2026-07-27

A new method called MosaicJoin addresses the trade-off between accuracy and scalability in semantic join discovery. Traditional equi-join approaches fail in data lakes where values referring to the same entity use different syntactic representations. Recent semantic methods either perform slow value-level comparisons or use column-level embeddings that miss fine-grained alignment. MosaicJoin uses a compact sketching strategy to approximate joinability at value level while maintaining scalability. The paper is published on arXiv with ID 2607.21781.

Key facts

  • MosaicJoin is a value-level semantic join discovery method.
  • It balances accuracy and scalability via a novel sketching strategy.
  • The paper is on arXiv, ID 2607.21781.
  • It targets data lakes and open-data repositories.
  • It addresses the challenge of different syntactic representations for same entities.
  • Value-level methods are accurate but scale poorly with high cardinality.
  • Column-level methods are efficient but miss fine-grained alignment.
  • MosaicJoin approximates joinability of columns.

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  • arXiv

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