"Similarity" is an evaluation of the degree that two objects are equal. It is one of the most widely used daily life concepts and vocabulary; and also one of the most fundamental and important concepts and tools in sciences. With the applications of the fuzzy number and the linguistic variable becoming more and more common, similarity measures of fuzzy sets become more and more important, so many scholars begin to discuss the methods for constructing similarity measures and the theoretical property of relative measures. In this comparative study, we give a survey and discussion on the similarity measures constructed based on the geometric distance, the set operations and the matching function. Such discussions can be used to clarify the applicability of measures and to derive more related results.