The Beautiful Power of Cross Search
There are few tech experiences more beautiful than cross searching multiple unlike databases, against each other, to generate insights not possible with any of the original constituents.
Years ago, some of the Fractal team members created technologies that could take any database, in any format, and cross search against any other database in any format.
The results were so profound that most of the top 10 auto insurance firms used this technology to fight auto fraud rings.
The hardware needed to run these systems was immense. The costs could only be borne by major corporations.
Fractal now makes it possible to do far richer searches, against scores, hundreds of other databases, on hardware you can hold in your hand.
The future of powerful compute in any citizens’ hands is here.
Government databases contain massive amounts of data. They are almost impossible for citizens to download due to their size and complexity.
The gold in these databases is what they don’t show – the richness from cross database search.
With Fractal, public databases can be quickly ingested into Fractals. Once there, they can be cross searched with any other Fractals.
Thus, the Federal Election Commission database with hundreds of millions of records can be compared with the voter registration files for every state in the United States.
In seconds, from a phone.
Cross searching unlike databases gives data elements to multiply each other. A link in one database is like a point in geometry. The same link spanning two databases is like a line. Three links is more like a plane.
Once you start finding the same people in multiple databases doing things together or sharing addresses the information from those searches multiplies – actually gushes.
Nobody has ever taken all the electoral databases and the FEC database of how money flows and cross searched them.
The Fractal team has.
Fractal runs the entire Federal Election Commission Database – the whole thing – 680,000,000 records. Unlike the federal version, the Fractal version runs in seconds, on hardware you can hold in your lap. The federal database is huge, complex and needs an entire data center.
The Fractal equivalent requires the electric power of a table lamp. That is disruption.
The Fractal team and some hardy state election integrity teams are doing it and finding fabulous patterns in the data helping identify contribution mules who donate thousands of times with no apparent sources of income.
There is great power to the cross search and it is being delivered to citizens with Fractal, today.