BEA Releases New Benchmark Study on BEA WebLogic Event Server Performance
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Report Demonstrates Strong Performance In Providing Low Latency at High Data Rates With a Message Rate Of Up To 1 million Events Per Second With Microsecond Latencies
Core News Facts
1. BEA announced the release of a new benchmark study on BEA WebLogic® Event Server performance, which is available for download at www.bea.com/eventserver.
2. The report demonstrates WebLogic Event Server's ability to provide low latency at very high data rates.
3. BEA entered the Event Driven Architecture (EDA) market in May 2007 with the launch of WebLogic Event Server, the first and only Java application server, designed for event-driven applications.
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 12, 2007 -- BEA Systems today announced the release of a new benchmark study on BEA WebLogic Event Server performance. The benchmark application conducted in this study implemented a capital markets front office scenario in which an application monitors an incoming stream of market data watching for the occurrence of certain conditions that will then trigger an action. The study revealed that WebLogic Event Server was able to sustain an event injection rate of up to 1 million events per second while maintaining microsecond latencies on a Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7350 series-based server. At this injection rate, the average event latency for the full processing path within the server was 67.3 microseconds, with 99.4 percent of the events processed in less than 200 microseconds and 99.99 percent processed in less than five milliseconds, demonstrating WebLogic Event Server's ability to provide low latency at very high data rates. This original study is available for download exclusively at www.bea.com/eventserver. Information about the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors for mainstream servers can be found at www.intel.com/technology/quad-core/server/.
Unlike competitive offerings that feature standalone complex event processing (CEP) engines, WebLogic Event Server provides CEP as part of an Application Server designed for the development and deployment of event-driven applications. The product is designed to enable customers in financial services, telecommunications, public sector, and many other industries to quickly build and safely deploy their applications without having to integrate a CEP engine with a separate general-purpose platform. As a result, customers can avoid much overhead and can bring new event-driven applications to market quickly. This approach is also designed to help make it easier to add event-oriented functionality to existing applications.
"Event driven applications such as the front office application tested in the study, are frequently characterized by the need to provide low and deterministic latencies while handling extremely high rates of streaming input data," said Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic Products at BEA Systems. "This presents performance challenges that are quite different from those faced by more traditional application servers that tend to focus on obtaining the highest possible throughput for transactional workloads. The latency solution builds on the hardened optimized stack developed by Intel and BEA, which has been in production for over five years and has won the SPEC JBB benchmarks for the past three years. This unique software/hardware combination has helped our customers meet the demands of the front office."
WebLogic Event Server aggregates information from distributed systems in real time and applies rules to discern patterns and trends that might otherwise go unnoticed. This can help companies model, identify, anticipate and instantly respond to opportunities and threats represented by seemingly unrelated events. The product is designed to serve as an infrastructure for certain key aspects of SOA, enabling high-performance computing without modification of current or planned SOA infrastructure, thereby helping companies to maximize the investments they already have in place. In addition, WebLogic Event Server can provide extreme transaction processing (XTP) support, delivering high throughput, high predictability and real-time response to help companies meet rigorous service level agreements (SLAs).
The product is designed to provide support for simple Java (POJO) programming and the Spring Framework, as well as an Event Processing Language (EPL) that can augment and extend SQL in defining the temporal rules and non-linear rule application critical for event processing. For more information, please visit www.bea.com/eventserver.
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