Re: Triggers in Flink CEP

2017-12-19 Thread Shailesh Jain
Thanks, Kostas. On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Kostas Kloudas < k.klou...@data-artisans.com> wrote: > Hi Shailesh, > > The pattern operator does not use Flink’s windowing mechanism internally. > Conceptually you may think that there are windows in both, and this is > true, but there > are

Re: Triggers in Flink CEP

2017-12-19 Thread Kostas Kloudas
Hi Shailesh, The pattern operator does not use Flink’s windowing mechanism internally. Conceptually you may think that there are windows in both, and this is true, but there are significant differences that prevent using Flink windowing for CEP. The above implies also that using triggers for

Triggers in Flink CEP

2017-12-19 Thread Shailesh Jain
Hi, Similar to the way it is exposed in Windows operator, is it possible to use Triggers inside the Pattern Operator to fire partially matched patterns (when certain events are very late and we want some level of controlled early evaluation)? I assume that Windows are used internally to