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I have taken a string as input, and need to compare it with a large volume of data from the database. Basically i have to find the distance between the input string and stored strings of the database table
What would be the perfect and efficient solution for this kind of situation ?
Thanks in advance.
Try the answer from this SO question
Or see this.
Edit: Here’s a function for Levenshtein distance in MySQL.
Edit2: An alternative would be to create an index of the strings you search in using a search engine like Lucene, which also supports Levenshtein distance in its queries.