Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aided design and many others. Whereas most of the existing similarity models are based on feature vectors, there exist some models which use very complex object representations such as trees and graphs. A promising way between too simple and too complex object representations in similarity search are sets of feature vectors. In this paper, we first motivate the use of this modeling approach for complete object similarity search as well as for partial object similarity search. After