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Innovation in Entity Resolution

The record of firsts and onlys in entity resolution.

Firsts & Onlys

A sixth-generation engine that covers every need: from 1M-record workloads to a hundred billion records, across real-time transactional, dynamic (just-in-time), and Spark batch, for both agentic and traditional workflows.

6th
generation engine
<1s
cold start
~560MB
library footprint
~100B
largest production instance
A data-formed mountain with a senzing flag planted at the summit, representing a record of firsts and onlys in entity resolution
Only Senzing delivers…

  • A sub-second cold boot, the only commercial engine that does it.
  • Real-time transactional, Spark batch, and just-in-time resolution, all from one method.
  • Production instances from under a million to about 100 billion records.
  • Live absorption of new data sources and features, with accuracy beyond manual review and no training or tuning.
Senzing was the first to deliver…

  • A composable library with no moving parts to assemble.
  • Scale from a mobile device to about 100 billion records, in production.
  • Entity resolution inside an LLM via plug-in and RAG (Conversational Entity Resolution).
  • Agentic entity resolution, run end to end by AI agents.

The Through-Line

Three arcs, one trajectory

Every release advances the same story: an engine that scales in both directions, reaches across the world’s data, and moves natively into agentic AI.

Arc 01 · Form factor

Scales in both directions

Sub-second cold start, a ~560 MB footprint, pure in-memory mode, and a composable SDK. Resolution runs serverlessly for agentic workloads and the largest datasets at the top, and on edge devices at the bottom.

Arc 02 · Across languages

Across languages and scripts

Native cross-script matching between CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and English, with no transliteration. Many more languages and scripts are supported through transliteration, alongside semantic search and regionally-trained address parsing.

Arc 03 · The agentic spine

Native to agentic AI

Senzing was first to bring entity resolution to a large language model with Conversational Entity Resolution. It followed with the first standalone MCP server for entity resolution, so agents can stand up resolution pipelines directly.

Always-On Foundations

The properties behind every release

These properties are built into the engine itself and hold across every advance on the timeline. Explore each in depth.

Sequence neutral

The same result no matter what order records are loaded.

Atomic delete

Any single record can be removed and its effect cleanly, fully reversed.

Full attribution

Every resolved value traces back to the exact source record it came from.

The Timeline

Recent milestones

Marquee moments from a fast-moving release cadence. For every point release in between, see the full release notes.

2020
Form factor

The first serverless entity resolution for AWS

Fully serverless entity resolution with incremental adds and no full reloads. Later benchmarked at about 10 million records in about 3 hours for under $100.

2023
Agentic & AI

Conversational Entity Resolution, the first Conversational AI for entity resolution

Entity resolution brought to a large language model via plug-in, roughly six months after ChatGPT launched. The origin point of the agentic arc.

Security & trust

Application-level encryption of PII

Automatic deterministic and non-deterministic encryption of sensitive columns, on the fly. Unique in the industry.

2025
Data & ecosystem

CORDs: Collections of Relatable Datasets

Free, Senzing-ready JSON snapshots (sanctions lists, corporate registries, offshore leaks, watchlists), so teams can prove value and explore third-party data in minutes, with no mapping.

Core engine

The v4 engine: cross-script matching and the explainability suite

Native CJK↔English matching for names and addresses with no transliteration, alongside Why Search, Record Preview, Match Key Details, Feature Traceability, and embedding-based semantic search.

Proof point

Proven in production to about 100 billion records

A first commercial customer surpassed 10 billion input records; a public-sector deployment reached roughly 10× larger. Real-time resolution at that scale, from a single composable engine.

Data & ecosystem

Placekey acquired, and kept open

The free universal place identifier brought in-house to strengthen location matching, and kept open for the community.

2026
Form factor

Sub-second cold start

Cold start cut to about half a second, down from several seconds, and the default for everyone. It makes the engine viable inside agentic workflows and serverless functions.

Agentic & AI

The Senzing MCP Server, the first in entity resolution

A standalone Model Context Protocol server: natural-language data mapping, SDK scaffold code, and about 30 example repositories. It never sees your data.

Agentic & AI

Senzing for Apache Spark and the Kiro power

End-to-end agentic pipelines across Spark batch, transactional SQL, and hybrid modes, plus one-click agentic entity resolution in the Kiro IDE that cuts new-source onboarding from about 300 hours to under three.

Data & ecosystem

The OpenData.org U.S. entity dataset

86 million organizations, 101 million contacts, and 142 million locations in Senzing-ready JSON, with Placekey among 162 reference identifiers.

Form factor

The smallest industrial-strength entity resolution library

The engine reduced to about 560 MB, roughly 7× smaller, with regionally-trained address parsing and a pure in-memory mode for instant resolution over a subset. Built for OEM embedding and the edge.

This is a snapshot. The pace is the point.

New capabilities land on a steady cadence. See every release in detail, or put the engine to work on your own data.

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