title: Fuzzy String matching of Strings in Java
body: <p>I have a very large list of Strings stored in a NoSQL DB. Incoming query is a string and I want to check if this String is there in the list or not. In case of Exact match, this is very simple. That NoSQL DB may have the String as the primary key and I will just check if there is any record with that string as primary key. But I need to check for Fuzzy match as well.</p>
  
  <p>There is one approach to traverse every String in that list and check Levenshtein Distance of input String with the Strings in list, but this approach will result in O(n) complexity and the size of list is very large (10 million) and may even increase. This approach will result in higher latency of my solution.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to solve this problem?</p>