We are often asked by online requests from prospects and from potential users to give them extensive details on our data matching technology. That’s understandable. A few of the claims Exorbyte makes regarding the speed and error-tolerance of our software are pretty unique and attract interest by users and developers alike. This said, it’s often with regret that we give partial information but cannot divulge the more proprietary parts of our system’s capabilities.
I would like to set the record straight. Like all software companies, we have to retain a degree of privacy around the most valuable of our inventions. However, we often see developers come to us for information and then attempt to build an application rivaling MatchMaker in speed and error tolerance. The results are almost always disappointing. The reason is simple: there is no silver bullet.
There is no single invention or trick to how MatchMaker can return Levenshtein or Soundex query results on many millions of data records in under 10 ms. The performance our software features comes from a large series of architectural, indexing and algorithmic innovations. Furthermore, every build of our core MatchMaker platform is tested for speed and overall performance at night (after our developers go home) to maintain optimal performance no matter what fancy features we add to the system. This has been going on for 10 years now, so the quality, speed, depth of functionality, flexibility, and reliability of MatchMaker are no miracle. We work at it every day.
We just released a new portion of our web site which describes there characteristics in more detail called Exorbyte Structured Data Search and Data Matching Platform. Check it out and tell us what’s missing if anything.
Tags: algorithms, engineering, Proprietary, search engine, software, structured data, technical
