Just a quick note on TIBCO BusinessEvents 5.0 hitting the TIBCO download site. This is a major architectural update for BusinessEvents, which now allows a choice of event-store datagrid providers [*1] out-of-the-box (i.e. the first CEP product with a choice in high performance in-memory distributed data stores).
Other interesting features in this release include:
- The dashboard tool TIBCO BusinessEvents Views now can visualise State Models for viewing what business entities are in what states. Things like: the states of customers’ orders in some fulfillment process, or the states of some financial transaction.
- A new option called TIBCO BusinessEvents Express, designed for those who don’t need stateful object management [*2]. This has no object persistence or datagrid features, for those who need just a high performance rules engine or decision management solution comparable with standard “Business Rule Engines” (a.k.a. Rete engines, inference rule engines, production rule engines, etc).
We’ll cover BE 5 in more detail later…
* Notes:
[1] BE 5.0 default is TIBCO BusinessEvents DataGrid, based on TIBCO ActiveSpaces technology. The option is to use Oracle Coherence (/Tangosol), as used in previous releases.
[2] OK, so I guess there are really 3 options for distributed event storage: none, BE DG, and Coherence.
