Objects such as products, product reviews, and user profiles are important in e-commerce domain. Vector is one of the most widely used object representation scheme. Information of e-commerce objects may be modeled by vectors in which the featured values are assigned to various dimensions. E-commerce objects are in general quantitatively large while some are similar or even same in reality. It Plays, therefore, an important role to measure the similarity between objects. In this paper, we survey the state-of-the -art vector similarity measures. Similarity measures are analyzed to feature the algebraic characteristics and relationship of those, and upon which we classify the related measures accordingly. We then present such features that standard vector similarity measures should convey.