If you need all the events that are being generated then you need to have a 
session consume all the events that are being generated.
If you can’t change that requirement then you are probably stuffed.

You should explore partitioning your design in different ways. You may not need 
all the events generated in which case you could partition it so that different 
combinations of events go to different destinations. Alternatively you may be 
able to partition the logic. The first step consumes all the events but only 
has very simple logic to correlate and reduce the data produced. These 
correlations could then be farmed out to a stage 2 set of rules which no longer 
need the event stream or which now only need a subset of the event stream.

Thomas

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[mailto:rules-users-boun...@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Neelesh Deo Dani
Sent: 02 August 2011 12:12
To: Rules Users List
Subject: Re: [rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine

It can be done in single session, if I make sure all the related events always 
go to a particular host by partitioning input event stream.
Basically, I'm looking for options in a scenario when the number of input 
events per sec is very large and a single instance/ host won't be able to 
handle the events. In this case, we need to run multiple instance of rule 
engine to get the scale.

Thanks,
Neel

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Wolfgang Laun 
<wolfgang.l...@gmail.com<mailto:wolfgang.l...@gmail.com>> wrote:

From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.l...@gmail.com<mailto:wolfgang.l...@gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine
To: "Rules Users List" 
<rules-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org>>
Date: Tuesday, 2 August, 2011, 4:11 PM
Why don't you do it in a single session?

The overhead created by the procedure you describe is considerable.

And you may run into synchronisation problems such as that the first event has 
gone to host A, the second one goes to host B, but A hasn't stored the event 
yet...

-W

2011/8/2 Neelesh Deo Dani 
<neelesh...@yahoo.co.in</mc/compose?to=neelesh...@yahoo.co.in>>
Following example clarifies the question:
I've Event declaration and rule as follows:

declare Event
    @role(event)
    @timestamp(datetime)
    datetime : Date
    name : String
end

rule "Contest"
no-loop
when
    $e1 : Event(name == "event1")
    $e2 : Event(name == "event2", this after $e1)
then
    System.out.println("rule Contest fired");
end
If Event with name "event1" is inserted in the session and after that Event 
with name "event2" is inserted in the same session, then the temporal operator 
("this after $e1" ) will work fine. But, if these two events are inserted in 
two different sessions ( rule engine running on different host), then it won't 
work. I'm trying to find a solution for this scenario. One way is to persist 
the events as well in datastore and whenever any event comes, insert all the 
previous events also in the session (by fetching from datastore). In this 
example, when event2 comes (to host2), fetch event1 from datastore and insert 
it in the session so that temporal operator will work.
Is there any better alternative exists for this scenario?

Thanks,
Neel

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Abhay B. Chaware 
<abhay.chaw...@kpitcummins.com</mc/compose?to=abhay.chaw...@kpitcummins.com>> 
wrote:


What do you expect to happen in the scenario mentioned, assuming you are 
running only 1 rules session? Whatever you expect to happen in this case ( e.g. 
latest update wins ), you will need to implement in your persistence logic If 
you are using separate rule engines/instances.

by the way, have you looked at drools grid ? I haven’t used it, but appears to 
solve a similar problem that you are trying to – distributed computing.

-abhay

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 On Behalf Of Swindells, Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:47 PM
To: Rules Users List
Subject: Re: [rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine



I’m not sure I understand the question.

You have two totally independent rule engine on two different servers running 
with separate JVMs and sessions.

You happen to share data between the two sessions by updating a database but 
drools has no knowledge of that (they are just java objects which happen to 
exist) and they certainly aren’t the same object on both servers.

Temporal reasoning and correlation of events will therefore only happen on the 
facts that are inserted into that processes working memory – there’s no way it 
could be any way else as it only know about itself, there could be 10 or 0 
other processes running it won’t know the difference.



The ideal method is to have an application design where each request is totally 
independent from all other requests (other than db state) and therefore you do 
exactly as you have described – there is no other state to share. If you have 
to share state between them you have a much bigger problem and you probably 
have to find some other way to partition up the data into separate blocks.



Thomas



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Subject: [rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine



Hi,
I need a setup where multiple instance of drools rule engine will be running in 
different physical hosts. In each host, a web server (API) will be running 
which will receive an input event, process it and insert into rule engine 
(session) for rules execution on the same host. I'm using external persistent 
datastore. The objects will be populated from datastore before inserting into 
the session. After rule execution if there is any change in the state of the 
objects the same will be stored back to the datastore. The datastore calls are 
made outside the rule execution.
In this scenario, if an event comes to one host and another event comes to a 
different host, how will the temporal reasoning or correlation of events work? 
What is the recommended way of deploying multiple instance of rule engine for 
scalability?
Please help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
Neel







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