StreamCruncher 2.2 Beta

Over the past few weeks I've been meddling with the Correlation engine inside StreamCruncher. The 2.2 Release is a result of that ongoing work. "Ongoing" - thus the Beta status. Nevertheless, this release includes changes to the Correlation code (alert..using..when.. clause), with rather drastic changes, in that the Kernel no longer requires the use of the Database to perform Pattern matching! Thereby, increasing performance and decreasing latency several fold.

A new TestCase has been added - CorrelationPerfTest, that demonstrates this wonderful improvement. In this TestCase, there are 4 Streams of Events that are monitored by 3 different Queries, each looking for a distinct Pattern. Since each Query runs in its own group of Threads, the Test scales well on Multi-Core/CPU systems. This Test also generates and consumes large amounts of data and thus serves as a Stress Test too.

Since this is an interim release, there are a few features that are still being developed - like the "case...when.." clause that used to work in previous releases. Now that the Database is no longer being used for Pattern matching, those features that were freely available in the Database are yet to be replicated by the Kernel.