Real Time Intelligence & Complex Event Processing

What’s New in CEP and Stream Analytics

Roy Schulte 22 May 2022 This article represents my personal opinion, not that of my employer, Gartner Inc., or anyone else. We note seven trends that are changing the way organizations use streaming event data and complex-event processing (CEP). The practice of CEP, including stream analytics and streaming extract-transform-load (ETL), …

The Origins of Complex Event Processing

By David Luckham¹ Complex Event Processing (CEP) was developed on a research project at Stanford University during the 1990’s. The project, called Rapide, aimed to develop an executable language for specifying distributed event-based systems and an accompanying simulator for such specifications. The Rapide project was a research effort funded by DARPA …

When Should You Use an Event Stream Processing Platform?

Roy Schulte The opinions expressed in this article are my own and may not reflect the position of my employer or any …

How to Really See What’s Happening In Real-Time Event Processing Systems¹

by David C. Luckham June 2021 Event processing systems are the foundation of modern society. Now-a-days they are the technology upon which everything …

A Brief Overview of the Concepts of CEP¹

by David Luckham The demand for processing higher level events, often called business events, has expanded rapidly over the past three or …

Vendors and Products in the Event Stream Processing Market

We can sort modern general-purpose ESP platforms into three major categories: A. Free, community-supported open source; B. Commercial, vendor-supported “open core” products that combine proprietary value-added capabilities with an open-source core; and C. Commercial, closed-source products. We list examples of each.