Master Index Match Engine Structure

The Master Index Match Engine was designed to be very flexible and generic, allowing you to customize existing matching rules and to define additional rules using Java. The match engine framework allows you to create and plug in custom matching comparison functions, or comparators, to the match engine to enable matching against any type of data. The Master Index Match Engine framework includes two main modules. The real-time module stores the predefined and user–defined Java classes that define the matching comparator logic. The design-time modules stores the configuration and validation classes for the comparators.

The Master Index Match Engine provides a wide variety of customizable comparators for you to choose from. You can also create comparators in the real-time module, and create new validation and configuration rules in the design-time module. The structure of the design-time module supports validations, weighting curves, and class dependencies. There is also an option that allows you load information from a data file and use that information to calculate a matching weight.