DataMentors is a company I was not aware of previously. Apparently they are branding some of their products as CEP, with some interesting claims:
GEMS technology is the first commercial event pattern language that includes an operator to express causality in the moment. This new real-time CEP technology enables companies to simultaneously examine historical, current, and predictive data.
Not sure what causality in the moment is. But I’m pretty sure that several other vendors would not agree them being first commercial to do anything with causality.
Furthermore:
GEMS ability to instantly compile data from thousands of disparate data-streams and conduct nesting pattern evaluations quickly and accurately is dependent on DataMentors’ software. DataMentors’ processing speeds are necessary to enable the GEMS technology to deliver insights and models instantly to end users, which result in higher levels of accurately predicting future events.
which a description one would expect from a company doing CEP. Once again interesting to see that another company chooses to position their products as CEP-something. It’s probably not done on random, so they must think that there is something to gain from calling themselves CEP and not something else. Which I like, as it shows that CEP is, slowly, gaining some traction.
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I have tried to google around for something about the Sybase/Aleri deal. There is lots of the normal "information" which is corporate blahblabla without any substance. But I found one piece of info that actually have something interesting in it about what Sybase might have in mind for Aleri:
"In addition to slashing latency, CEP can also help to reduce warehouse storage requirements and help tame problems that were heretofore too costly to solve. By conducting analysis of a stream as it arrives, much of needed analysis and aggregation can be done without persisting details to the warehouse at all. If your data has no retention requirements, other than your analysis needs, you may be able to use CEP to greatly reduce your warehouse costs." – http://www.beyeblogs.com/sybaseiq/archive/2010/02/inastreamofgood.php
Analytic BI + nifty real-time front-end for the datawarehousing guys would seem like a pretty good use for the Coral8 engine, I just assume that they will use the Coral8 engine and throw away the rest.
Apart from that, I don’t think this deal will turn into anything significant for the CEP community. Sybase will add some real-time features and give some nice shiny toys for their capital market customers that can be used to game the markets even further. But I don’t think they will have a generic CEP engine to offer in the future.
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"SenSage 4 includes a highly scalable real-time correlation engine, the Scalable Alert Server (SAS). Correlation is based on the application of threshold and scenario-based rules against multi-source, real-time event streams" – http://www.sensage.com/products/sensage-40.php
I wonder how long it takes before this product carries the CEP label…
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At last I had some time to read the new CEP book from Opher Etzion and Peter Niblett. The book, Event Processing in Action, has an eta of april 2010. But there is a preview from the publisher Manning Publications. Allowing us to read an unfinished book is a brave move by Manning. A bit like introducing agile methods into the book writing process; release early and often.
I have a really good feeling about this book. Power of Events by David Luckham was the book that sort of defined the field. It got everything started and more importantly introduced the idea that event processing is its own discipline.
What is needed is a book that summarizes the ideas that have evolved around event processing since David’s book. I think that Event Processing in Action will be that book. My gut feeling is that this book will define the event processing field for the years to come. It does a great job of putting everything into context and explaining how all the bits and pieces in this new field are related.
The early access edition can be found here if you are interested in a preview: http://www.manning.com/etzion/
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Now it is official: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1067153
Unfortunately there is no new information in the press release apart from the fact that they bought something from Aleri for an unknown sum.
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