StreamBase CEP
StreamBase Event Processing Platform is high-performance software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data. With StreamBase, organizations build real-time systems in record time which are deployed at a fraction of the cost and risk of alternatives.
StreamBase’s complex event processing (CEP) software is distinguished by bringing together three significant capabilities in one integrated platform: rapid development via the industry’s only complete graphical event-flow language, extreme performance with a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Industry leaders in capital markets, the intelligence/security sector, and other industries are benefiting from rapid, on-the-fly processing of complex data streams-and the fastest time to prototype, test, and deploy real-time applications.
The traditional approach for processing this complex event data has required costly, time-consuming development of both infrastructure and application logic from scratch, using specialized expertise to build a complete functional system without the support of a platform. StreamBase eliminates these problems by offering commercial systems software designed to process, analyze and respond to those real-time data streams instantaneously, offering superior speed, scalability, and value compared to conventional infrastructures or custom-coded environments.
Rapid Time-to-Value with Graphical Development Environment
StreamBase Studio™ is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) that provides tools for all stages of the development process, including design, test and deployment. Applications can be prototyped and built in just a few hours or days.
The operations in event processing inherently follow a workflow pattern, and StreamBase Studio provides an intuitive drag-and-connect graphical authoring environment with workflow orientation that eliminates the need for custom-coding application logic – which can be very time-consuming and expensive. StreamBase also makes it easy to modify applications when business needs change or data volumes increase.
The graphical environment of StreamBase Studio also supports heterogenous development teams combining professional developers, data scientists (“quants”), and business professionals. These teams can organize around the common tool, divide up the workload, and facilitate cooperative development and communication through the shared artifact of the graphical EventFlow application.
High Performance Complex Event Processing
StreamBase applications achieve performance levels measured at hundreds of thousands messages/second by virtue of the StreamBase Server, an ultra low-latency application server optimized for real-time event processing. It utilizes a push-based processing architecture that queries data as it streams through the system. Business rules and rich application logic are applied in real-time to deliver results in-flight as they are produced, enabling significant speed/performance gains compared to alternatives that require storing and indexing the data before queries are processed.
Enterprise Connectivity
StreamBase offers a broad set of connectivity options that allow for integration with a variety of data sources and enterprise systems. These include StreamBase Adapters to leading financial market data feeds (Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Lime, Activ, exchanges), messaging systems (e.g. Tibco RV, EMS/JMS messaging), JDBC-compliant databases, and real-time dashboard development environments like Adobe Flex; and in addition connectivity to high capacity databases and data warehouses (Kx, HP Vertica, Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics, and IBM DB2). StreamBase also offers published Java, C++, and .NET API support and a wizards-based rapid adapter development toolkit.
The Bottom Line
Before StreamBase, processing real-time data feeds with high throughput was a difficult undertaking. With StreamBase’s enterprise-class engine running StreamSQL, more and more organizations are now gaining:
- Faster processing and reaction to real-time complex event streams
- Shorter development cycles, with significantly easier maintenance
- Dramatically lower development and programming costs
- Flexibility to quickly adapt to changing business and analytic needs
- Reduced hardware and operational expenses
- Faster time-to-profit from real-time initiatives
For additional information about StreamBase, please see our answers to Frequently Asked Questions, or visit the support knowledge base.
