The Comparison transformation is a passive transformation that evaluates the similarity between pairs of input strings and calculates the degree of similarity for each pair as a numerical score.
When you configure the transformation, you select a pair of input columns and assign a matching strategy to them.
The Comparison transformation outputs match scores in a range from
0
to
1
, where
1
indicates a perfect match.
The strategies available in the Comparison transformation are also available in the Match transformation. Use the Comparison transformation to define match comparison operations that you will add to a matching mapplet. You can add multiple Comparison transformations to the mapplet. Use the Match transformation to define match comparisons in a single transformation. You can embed a matching mapplet in a Match transformation.