The CEP Market 2009: a Brief History Lesson
Posted by Paul Vincent
I always thought Rolando Hernandez had an excellent idea with his “BRE Family Tree” - and had at some point tried to persuade Prof Luckham to do something similar for the “CEP market”. I was reminded of this by Opher’s blog on CEP and EDA in the current Gartner “hype cycle”, and as I had recently drafted such a CEP version for an internal presentation I decided to post it up here. The chart purports to show the “main players” in CEP today. Probably I’m missing some startups, or R&D offerings that have been commercially sold, and the start dates for such “commercial offerings” may be open to debate. But it shows the main players, at least. And it will be interesting to see how this evolves over the next year or so!
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Complex Event Processing (CEP), Trends | 31 July 2009 |
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By Jeff Wootton, August 8, 2009 @ 06:28
Paul - This is a really useful diagram. Thanks for sharing it.
By Paul Vincent, August 10, 2009 @ 01:51
Thanks Jeff - hopefully it is somewhat accurate…
Cheers
By Jerry Baulier, October 15, 2009 @ 16:52
Hi Paul,
I agree with Jeff, very nice chart, thanks.
The Aleri Streaming Platform was actually released in Nov 2005, so it’s more in line with Coral8 timewise, in fact Coral8 announced months after Aleri (they were purposely under the radar for a period of time). Aleri also had a prior event processing framework on which we built Liquidity Management (a position management event streaming app), but given it was column-based it was not really low latency, that work goes back to 1999.
You might also want to Google the Sunrise Project, which one of my teams productized under the name QTM while at Bell Labs Research and later Lucent’s Software Business Unit. We called it real-time event analytics/processing back then and we were unable to spin it out as a venture given the market was not yet ready for this sort of framework, so instead we built and sold apps using it under the Kenan brand. This was another relational-based event processing framework utilizing SQL for modeling.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Jerry
By Paul Vincent, October 16, 2009 @ 05:40
Thanks Jerry - I already have some updates to do to this chart, so thanks for the update and Sunrise/QTM suggestion.
I tried to steer a “neutral” path on “start dates” - estimating “first customer use” rather than project availability and POC efforts. Clearly that data is not usually available, hence the variability on timing. Of course, may people have done CEP-based products (and re-usable “frameworks”) prior the availability of more general-purpose CEP products… probably we don’t want to document all those (in this chart anyway!). Then again, it might be interesting to have a version of this chart with “predecessor applications, specialist tools and projects”…
Cheers