The benchmark application conducted in the 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, BEA said.
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, BEA said.
The study is available for download at www.bea.com/eventserver.
Our View
Benchmarks are interesting, but should not be the only basis on which a company buys a product. Pilot testing in real-world environments gives a far better picture of likely performance in an individual company’s infrastructure.
Perhaps more interesting then is the fact that BEA says its architecture is different from competitive offerings that feature standalone complex event processing (CEP) engines.
Instead, WebLogic Event Server provides CEP as part of BEA’s application server, said to be designed for the development and deployment of event-driven applications. BEA said the product is designed to enable customers to build and deploy their applications without having to integrate a CEP engine with a separate general-purpose platform.
