| Bag distance | bag | dissimilarity | no | |
| Jaccard index, generalized | bag | similarity | yes | |
| Monge-Elkan similarity, generalized | bag | similarity | | |
| Monge-Elkan similarity | bag | similarity | | |
| Damerau-Levenshtein distance | sequence | dissimilarity | no | yes |
| Hamming distance | sequence | dissimilarity | no | |
| Harmonic edit distance | sequence | dissimilarity | no | yes |
| Jaro similarity | sequence | similarity | yes | |
| Jaro-Winkler similarity | sequence | similarity | yes | |
| LCS distance | sequence | dissimilarity | no | |
| Levenshtein distance | sequence | dissimilarity | no | yes |
| Marzal-Vidal edit distance | sequence | dissimilarity | yes | yes |
| Dice coefficient | set | similarity | yes | |
| Jaccard index | set | similarity | yes | |
| Otsuka-Ochiai coefficient | set | similarity | yes | |
| Overlap coefficient | set | similarity | yes | |
| Tversky index | set | similarity | yes | |
| Cosine similarity | vector | similarity | yes | no |