This is a very comprehensive document, incredible job! It seems that most of the machinery is already in place in Flink, which would make this a very valuable addition taking into account the implementation effort.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > recently we've seen an increased interest in complex event processing (CEP) > by Flink users. Even though most functionality is already there to solve > many use cases it would still be helpful for most users to have an easy to > use library. Having such a library which allows to define complex event > patterns would increase Flink's user range to the CEP community. Once > having laid the foundation, I'm optimistic that people will quickly pick it > up and further extend it. > > The major contribution of this library would be to add an efficient > non-deterministic finite automaton which can detect complex event patterns. > For everything else, Flink already has most of the functionality in place. > > I've drafted a design document for the first version. Please review it and > comment: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/15iaBCZkNcpqSma_qrF0GUyobKV_JttEDVuhNd0Y1aAU/edit?usp=sharing > > Thanks, > Till >
