Palo Alto, CA – December 10, 2013 – Sensors, the Web, cloud and mobile computing are driving unprecedented volumes of information. In response, enterprises are adopting big data strategies to transform that information into insights about their business. WSO2 supports this demand with the latest releases of two products: WSO2 Complex Event Processor (WSO2 CEP) 3.0 and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM) 2.4.
WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 complement database management systems in addressing the big data challenge. Working together, the integrated WSO2 products provide the industry’s first solution for enabling data streams to be analyzed simultaneously in real-time (with WSO2 CEP 3.0) and via batch processing (with WSO2 BAM 2.4). As a result, enterprises have unprecedented flexibility for analyzing the vast streams of events coming into the organization to gain valuable insights into their business.
With today’s launch:
WSO2 CEP 3.0, which is designed for real-time complex event processing, has been significantly re-architected. It also offers several new features within the WSO2 Siddhi CEP engine that increase performance up to 50%, expands event management functionality, and adds dashboard integration via WSO2 User Engagement Server for real-time event analysis and visualization.
WSO2 BAM 2.4 which supports batch analysis, adds Apache Cassandra indexing support to facilitate searches. It also offers a new activity dashboard for viewing events in real-time, and incremental processing and timestamp data type support through Apache Cassandra and Apache Hive.
WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 inherit new capabilities from Version 4.2 of the WSO2 Carbon core framework on which both products are built, including support for Hazelcast, multi-profile deployment, and synchronous deployment of artifacts.
As with all WSO2 Carbon middleware products, WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 are fully multitenant and cloud-ready. This means IT professionals can write an application once and deploy it on the same middleware on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.
The Bigger Picture Around Big Data
“Big data investments in 2013 continue to rise, with 64% of organizations investing or planning to invest in big data technology compared with 58% last year. Investments are led by media and communications, banking and services. Planned investments the next two years are highest for transportation, healthcare and insurance. Fewer than 8% of respondents have deployed,” observes Gartner in the report, Survey Analysis: Big Data Adoption in 2013 Shows Substance Behind the Hype1, which was published September 12, 2013. The report further notes, “Companies either are or will be looking at a variety of technologies to extract value from their big data projects, basing choices on the types of data processed, responsiveness and timeliness requirements, and analytical workload.”
“IT leaders and business teams who separate business signals from transaction noise can transform their business operations into a proactive, collaborative model that increases customer-centric interaction, streamlines partner coordination, and enhances revenue growth,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “Together, our WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 products uniquely complement transactional databases by providing the only solution to simultaneously analyze business activity across multiple data formats and message channels in real-time for timely operational management and via batch for effective business planning.”
WSO2 Complex Event Processor 3.0
WSO2 CEP provides complex event processing and event stream processing to enable solutions that require analysis over time, such as fraud detection, algorithmic trading analysis, sales, shipping or order status, and other business events. Using WSO2 CEP, developers and architects can easily create queries and analysis of real-time event streams to drive real-time business decisions based on time-based events.
WSO2 CEP 3.0 builds on the performance capabilities introduced in 2012 with version 2.0, which included a new WSO2 Siddhi CEP engine that increased performance by up to 10x and support for the high-performance Apache Thrift transport. The newest version has been rewritten to reduce the tight coupling between product components and enable their use in other WSO2 middleware products. Other major enhancements have been made to the CEP engine and WSO2 CEP’s event management functionality.
New CEP Engine Capabilities
Version 3.0 of WSO2 CEP adds several new capabilities to WSO2 Siddhi, which have increased performance by up to 50% over the previous release. The CEP engine now supports dynamic query partitioning based on incoming events, which increases performance. It also lets users store, retrieve and process events in a database table-like structure, with the option to use “in-memory table” or “relational table” style event tables. A new event adaptor manager in WSO2 Siddhi for broker manager-related configurations makes it easier to create event adaptors and write custom event adaptors quickly. Other enhancements to the CEP engine, include:
Enhanced Event Management
WSO2 CEP 3.0 also offers several enhancements to event management. A new event builder for mapping incoming events and a new event formatter for mapping outgoing events both allow users to change the event format as required to other formats, such as XML, JSON, TXT or MAP, as well as filter attributes of the event. Additionally, the event formatter has been integrated with the registry, so users can define the mapping templates in the registry and can use/reuse them dynamically in different execution plans. Support for multiple input event adaptors and output event adaptors gives users the option to select the best approach for each use case. Finally, with WSO2 CEP 3.0, statistics about events can be taken for the whole server, for an execution plan or per a deployment artifact (e.g., input adaptors, event builders, execution plans, event formatters, and output adaptors).
Other new features in WSO2 CEP 3.0 include:
Business Activity Monitor 2.4
WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 2.4 provides just-in-time visibility into distributed complex systems and gives enterprises a powerful framework for tracking and analyzing big data related to such areas as click-streams, API usage, fraud detection, and software log analysis in a cloud environment, to name a few.
WSO2 BAM utilizes Apache Cassandra to offer scalable event storage using column families for each event type. Additionally, through Apache Hadoop, it provides SQL-like flexibility for writing analysis algorithms via Apache Hive. Analysis results can be stored flexibly in Apache Cassandra, a relational database, or file system. Meanwhile load balancing offers horizontal scaling, and a low-latency API enables WSO2 BAM 2.0 to receive large volumes events over various transports, including Apache Thrift and REST/HTTP.
With Version 2.4, WSO2 BAM adds several new capabilities, including:
New Capabilities Inherited With WSO2 Carbon 4.2
WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 are part of WSO2 Carbon, the industry’s first fully componentized middleware platform for creating, running and managing composite applications and Web services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud environment. Built on the OSGi specification, WSO2 Carbon lets developers easily deploy and customize any WSO2 Carbon-based middleware products, and the 175-plus components on which they are comprised, providing greater flexibility and agility to meet changing enterprise demands.
The cloud-enabled, fully multitenant WSO2 Carbon core framework provides all WSO2 middleware products with a consistent set of enterprise-class management, security, clustering, logging, statistics, tracing, and other capabilities. As a result, WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 inherit the capabilities that were launched with version 4.2 of the WSO2 Carbon core in October 2013. These include:
For more detail, on the WSO2 Carbon 4.2 release, visit https://wso2.com/about/news/wso2-carbon-wso2-api-manager-and-wso2-governance-registry-increase-speed-scalability-and-high-availability-through-hazelcast.
Availability and Support
WSO2 Complex Event Processor 3.0 and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 2.4 are in production today. They are available as software downloads that can run directly on servers or as WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines running on the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), and VMware ESX. They can operate as part of a private platform as a service (PaaS) by plugging into WSO2 Private PaaS software, and they are available as hosted services on the WSO2 Cloud public PaaS. As fully open source solutions released under the Apache License 2.0, they do not carry any licensing fees.
WSO2 CEP 3.0 and WSO2 BAM 2.4 are backed by a world-class technical team in which the experts that helped create the software provide support, leading to direct and immediate access to the people with in-depth knowledge of the middleware. In addition to production support, WSO2 service and support options include evaluation support, development support, and special QuickStartSM consulting programs.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit https://wso2.com or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed..
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
1Gartner, “Survey Analysis: Big Data Adoption in 2013 Shows Substance Behind the Hype,” by Lisa Kart, Nick Heudecker, and Frank Buytendijk, September 12, 2013.