Marco on CEP

Microsofts entry into CEP space starts to look good and here’s some links (courtesy of Badrish Chandramouli from the StreamInsight team, thanks!) to those interested in reading more.

StreamInsight webpage (where you can find some more recent information such as white papers, help documents, examples, trial download):

• http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2-complex-event.aspx

StreamInsight blog and public forum:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/streaminsight/
• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/streaminsight

Research papers: 

The original CIDR paper (some of the stuff in this paper is out-dated, for example, the presence of transaction-time in the logical tables):

• http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/papers/cidr07p42.pdf

A technical report about some more detailed implementation aspects:

• http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70517/tr-2007-158.pdf

Two more recent papers from the StremInsight group: 

Recursive query processing in a streaming system with temporal algebra:

• http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/101567/FFP-2009-camera.pdf

A description of StreamInsight and behavioral targeted advertising:

• http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/101568/MicrosoftCEPDemo.pdf

Complex Event Processing