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Table 1 Comparison of the Mainzelliste with other tools for Entity Resolution (ER) and PPRL

From: Optimization of the Mainzelliste software for fast privacy-preserving record linkage

Product

Core Functionality

Incremental

Blocking

Usability

Mainzelliste

Identity Management with ER and PPRL

Yes

Soundex, LSH (Field-level Bloom filter) (our contribution)

RESTful web interface

Standard ER-Software

ER

Rarely

Yes

Library, Desktop Application

SOEMPI

PPRL

Yes

LSH (Record-level Bloom filter)

Web-Interface

LSHDB

PPRL

Yes

LSH (Record-level Bloom filter)

Library

PRIMAT

PPRL

Planned

LSH (Record-level Bloom filter)

Library, Desktop Application