Similarity methods Similarity methods String Similarity Numeric Data Similarity Character-based Token-based Treated as strings Edit distance Atomic strings Affine gap distance WHIRL Smith -Waterman distance Q-grams with tf idf Jaro distance metric Q-gram distanceSimilarity methods Similarity methods String Similarity Numeric Data Similarity Character-based Token-based Edit distance Affine gap distance Smith-Waterman distance Jaro distance metric Q-gram distance Atomic strings WHIRL Q-grams with tf.idf Treated as strings