is there any official or "de-facto" official implementation of Levenshtein distance on MariaDB 10.2 or 10.3?
I found this https://github.com/juanmirocks/Levenshtein-MySQL-UDF, but I want to be sure that there are no alternatives.
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PostgreSQL ships with one postgresql.org/docs/11/fuzzystrmatch.html – Evan Carroll May 27 '19 at 20:36
There is no single officially approved or universally accepted implementation as of writing this (May 2019). However, as suggested by Rick James in a comment,
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mysql Levenshtein; there are several implementations out there. I don't know if they are all the same. A UDF implementation is likely to be faster than a Stored Procedure.
