About the Sun Match Engine

The Sun Match Engine includes a standardization engine and a match engine, providing data parsing, data standardization, phonetic encoding, and record matching capabilities for master index applications. Before records can be compared to evaluate the possibility of a match, the data contained in those records must be standardized and in certain cases phonetically encoded or parsed. Once the data is conditioned, the match engine determines a match weight for each field defined for matching. The match weight is based on your configuration of the match engine and the fields on which matching is performed. The composite weight (the sum of weights generated for all match fields in the records) indicates how closely two records match.