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Re:Levenshtein Distance by kelvich on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:30PM (#20772086)
That may be a wrong question to ask. If do not need exact levenshtein distance, but some measure of similarity then there are a lot of options. For example postgres has index-supported similarity based on amount of common trigrams.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgtrgm.html

Re:Levenshtein Distance by bgorman on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:38PM (#20773926)
yeah pgtrgm works really well for detecting typos or almost-matches.