TIBCO announced today the delivery of the first TIBCO Messaging Appliance – basically an RV agent in a box – and this has been widely reported and blogged about. It’s quite feasible that the same approach could be used for “basic” complex event processing operations, especially those that don’t require history (or much persistence) – examples that spring to mind include simple streaming queries, aggregations, identifying missing events over time, and so forth. Indeed, there are academic studies of such approaches in progress today.
The TIBCO Messaging Appliance works with the TIBCO BusinessEvents CEP product, whose multi-agent architecture may well be required to consume such high messaging rates, as well as any other RV-enabled tool.
