Master Index Match Engine Features

The Master Index Match Engine provides comprehensive record matching capabilities to the Sun MDM Suite using trusted and proven methodologies. It includes the following features:

• Uses proven matching methodologies based on research at the U.S. Census Bureau, SRD, and customized for stable, reliable, and high-speed matching.

• Uses a combination of probabilistic and deterministic matching.

• Is very flexible and generic, allowing you to customize existing matching rules and to define custom rules as needed.

• Provides a comprehensive array of customizable comparators for matching on various types of fields, such as numbers, dates, single characters, and so on. Includes more specialized comparison functions for searching on specific types of data, such as person names, address fields, social security numbers, genders.

• Supports the creation of custom comparison functions to enable matching against any type of data. This is possible because the match engine is built on a pluggable architecture.

• Supports a variety of configurations for comparison functions, including validations, weighting curves, class dependencies, and the ability to access a data file that provides additional information on how to match data.

• Allows you to create new validation and configuration rules.

• Provides a simple and clear method to incorporate customizations into Sun Master Index applications.

• Matches on free-form fields by using the features of the Master Index Standardization Engine prior to matching.

• Outputs the composite match weight as well as the individual, field-level match weights.