JellyFisher is a Splunk custom search command that leverage the excellent jellyfish python's library to do approximate and phonetic strings matching. String comparison algorithms: - Levenshtein Distance - Damerau-Levenshtein Distance - Jaro Distance - Jaro-Winkler Distance - Match Rating Approach Comparison - Hamming Distance Phonetic encoding algortihms: - American Soundex - Metaphone - NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System) - Match Rating Codex Example: - The Levenshtein distance between 'kitten' and 'sitting' is 3. - The soundex representation of both 'Robert' and 'Rupert' is 'R163'