Complex Event Processing Vendors Flounder

[DLuckham]

Peter, your questions are helpful.
I'm writing another book.
When I wrote the PoE book I had little idea of what the audience would or would not understand.
- David

[laura]

Hello all,

I don’t know if this is the right topic… but I didn’t know were I could ask.
I just started studying the complex event processing topic and I am searching
for some open source tools/system/framework that do event processing,
but I have some strict requirements: it should be something developed with C/C++ and should work on Linux.
At the moment the only tools/systems I have found are developed with Java.
Do you know something about this?

Thank you,
Laura

[jdwootton]

Laura - the Coral8 and Aleri platforms are both implemented in C++ - but they're not open source. You are, however, welcome to download the Coral8 Platform for free under a development license (limited to non-production use) from coral8.com.

[marco]

There's a project called Pion (from here: http://atomiclabs.com/ which is in C++, and there seems to be a version available under an open source license. I have no idea how much CEP stuff they have in place. I found it rather recently and the first release seems to be from 2008. But it might be worth a look? It is also interesting in that it is an fresh approach to CEP leaving the SQL concepts and apparently trying to design something developed for CEP from the start.

Nothing wrong with the SQL based approaches, but in theory something designed specially for a particular problem (CEP in our case) could be a more natural fit for event processing, instead of hacking an old concept (which actually works rather nicely in its new clothes).