What are the advantages of Espers Event Processing Language (EPL)?
The Esper event processing language (EPL) converges event stream processing (filtering, joins, aggregation) and complex event processing (causality) into one single language. The core language is SQL-like ensuring rapid learning, but is also highly oriented toward support of modern technologies so it is for example object oriented (more than table oriented), enabling for simple extension. The language, of course, includes event windows and causality patterns as first citizens. We natively support several types of event formats, from Java/.Net object, maps, to XML documents.