The Cleanse Match Server run-time component is a servlet that handles cleanse requests. This servlet is deployed in an application server environment. The servlet contains two server components:

a cleanse server that handles data cleansing operations
a match server that handles match operations

The Cleanse Match Server is multi-threaded so that each instance can process multiple requests concurrently. It can be deployed on a variety of application servers.

The Cleanse Match Server interfaces with any of the supported cleanse engines, such as the Trillium Director cleanse engine. The Cleanse Match Server and the cleanse engine work to standardize the data. This standardization works closely with the Informatica Consolidation Engine (formerly referred to as the Merge Engine) to optimize the data for consolidation.