The present invention is generally directed toward the field of stream processing, particularly the use of stream processing in a system such as a business rules engine, an event stream processor, and a complex event stream processor.
Terminology:
The following paragraphs provide several definitions for various terms used herein. These paragraphs also provide background information relating to these terms.
GPP: As used herein, the term “general-purpose processor” (or GPP) refers to a hardware device having a fixed form and whose functionality is variable, wherein this variable functionality is defined by fetching instructions and executing those instructions (for example, an Intel Xeon processor or an AMD Opteron processor), of which a conventional central processing unit (CPU) is a common example.
Reconfigurable Logic: As used herein, the term “reconfigurable logic” refers to any logic technology whose form and function can be significantly altered (i.e., reconfigured) in the field post-manufacture. This is to be contrasted with a GPP, whose function can change post-manufacture, but whose form is fixed at manufacture.
Software: As used herein, the term “software” refers to data processing functionality that is deployed on a GPP or other processing devices, wherein software cannot be used to change or define the form of the device on which it is loaded.
Firmware: As used herein, the term “firmware” refers to data processing functionality that is deployed on reconfigurable logic or other processing devices, wherein firmware may be used to change or define the form of the device on which it is loaded.
Coprocessor: As used herein, the term “coprocessor” refers to a computational engine designed to operate in conjunction with other components in a computational system having a main processor (wherein the main processor itself may comprise multiple processors such as in a multi-core processor architecture). Typically, a coprocessor is optimized to perform a specific set of tasks and is used to offload tasks from a main processor (which is typically a GPP) in order to optimize system performance. The scope of tasks performed by a coprocessor may be fixed or variable, depending on the architecture of the coprocessor. Examples of fixed coprocessor architectures include Graphics Processor Units which perform a broad spectrum of tasks and floating point numeric coprocessors which perform a relatively narrow set of tasks. Examples of reconfigurable coprocessor architectures include reconfigurable logic devices such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) which may be reconfigured to implement a wide variety of fixed or programmable computational engines. The functionality of a coprocessor may be defined via software and/or firmware.
Hardware Acceleration: As used herein, the term “hardware acceleration” refers to the use of software and/or firmware implemented on a coprocessor for offloading one or more processing tasks from a main processor to decrease processing latency for those tasks relative to the main processor.
Enterprise: As used herein, the term “enterprise” refers to any business organization or governmental entity that stores and/or processes data (referred to as “enterprise data”) as part of its ongoing operations.
Database: As used herein, the term “database” refers to a persistent data store with indexing capabilities to expedite query processing. Various database management system (DBMS) implementations might be categorized as relational (RDBMS), object-oriented (OODBMS), hierarchical, etc.; however, the dominant architecture in today's industry is a relational, row-column, structured query language (SQL)-capable database. An ANSI-standard SQL database engine is a mature software architecture that can retrieve structured data in response to a query, usually in an efficient manner.
Structured Data: As used herein, the term “structured data” refers to data that has been normalized and persisted to a relational database. Normalization is the data design process of putting data into a tabular, row-column format and abstracting duplicate data into separate tables. Structured data in relational columns is capable of being indexed with B-tree indexes, significantly speeding access to the data in these columns. In SQL terms, structured columns have size limits. These columns may have constraints and referential integrity applied to them in order to ensure consistent data quality. Examples of common structured SQL datatypes are: INT(eger), NUMBER, CHAR(acter), VARCHAR, DATE, TIMESTAMP.
Unstructured Data: As used herein, the term “unstructured data” refers to data that falls outside the scope of the definition above for structured data. Thus, the term unstructured data encompasses files, documents or objects with free form text or embedded values included therein. This data includes the complete set of bytes, often including binary-format data, that was used by the application that generated it. Examples of unstructured data include word processing documents (e.g., Microsoft Word documents in their native format), Adobe Acrobat documents, emails, image files, video files, audio files, and other files in their native formats relative to the software application that created them. In SQL terms, unstructured columns have very large, if not unlimited size. Common examples of unstructured SQL datatypes are: BLOB, TEXT, XML, RAW, and IMAGE. Unstructured objects may also be stored outside the database, for example in operating system files. Access to these external objects from within the database engine uses links in the metadata in the database table to the storage location.
There are a number of reasons why XML will not normally be categorized as “structured” as that term is used herein:
Enterprises such as corporations, institutions, agencies, and other entities have massive amounts of data for which analysis is needed to enable decision making processes, and computerized systems based on business rules have arisen to aid enterprises' decision-making capabilities in this regard.
A variety of systems have been developed to provide rule-based decision-making capabilities to enterprises. Examples of these systems include event processors, complex event processors (CEPs), and business rules engines. An event processor and a complex event processor can be distinguished from a business rules engine in that an event processor and a complex event processor are “feed forward” systems in that they do not feed result information from the business rule condition checking process back into the event processor or complex event processor to determine further actions that need to be taken. In contrast, a business rules engine employs some form of inferencing intelligence at the output of the business rule condition checking process to feed all or a select subset of the results back into the business rules engine to determine further actions that need to be taken. A complex event processor can be distinguished from an event processor in that a complex event processor can take into consideration multiple events when deciding whether a particular business rule condition has been satisfied.
An algorithm that has arisen to implement a rule-based system exemplified by
The inventors believe that conventional implementations of computerized rule-based systems do not perform exceptionally well, particularly in instances where the size of the rule set is large and growing, where the size of the data volume is large and growing, and/or where there is a need for low latency with respect to making a business rule-based decision after first receiving the pertinent data. For example, the inventors believe that conventional business rule processing systems which rely on analyzing data stored using database technology such as a conventional RDBMS (which are optimized for large-scale permanent storage and carefully-tuned query performance) have difficulty keeping up with the demands of very high speed data streams and thus serve as a potential bottleneck in a rule-based decision-making system. Thus, as enterprises' rule sets and data volumes continue to grow in size and complexity and as data transfer speeds continue to increase, the inventors further believe that time will exacerbate this problem unless a better solution for business rule processing is devised.
In an effort to address this need in the art, the inventors herein disclose a technique for hardware-accelerating the process of determining whether data within a data stream satisfies at least one rule condition of a rule. The data streams, as represented by a stream of bits, may include structured and/or unstructured data. Based on such a hardware-acceleration rule condition check operation, a rule condition check result is generated to indicate whether a data stream portion (such as a record or field) satisfies any rule conditions. Preferably, the rule condition check result is generated only when a data stream portion satisfies a rule condition. However, this need not be the case. It should also be understood that the rule condition check result can be expressed in any of a number of ways. For example, a rule condition check result can be expressed as a bit value (or bit values) in a register within a system. A rule condition check result can also be expressed as one or more bits that are added to an existing record (such as by adding a field to a record to express the rule condition check result or by adding a bit to an existing field of a record to express the rule condition check result). As yet another example, a rule condition check result can be expressed as a new record that is inserted into the data stream.
Based on the rule condition check results, enterprises can take desired actions with an extremely low degree of latency, particularly relative to a conventional rule-based decision-making system which relies on software executed by a main GPP for the system to determine whether various data records satisfy pre-defined rule conditions. With embodiments described herein, data is streamed into a coprocessor, and rule condition check results based on a plurality of different rule conditions can be generated at bus bandwidth rates, thereby leading to dramatic improvements in rule-based decision-making latency.
In doing so, the present invention preferably harnesses the underlying hardware-accelerated technology disclosed in the following patents and patent applications: U.S. Pat. No. 6,711,558 entitled “Associated Database Scanning and Information Retrieval”, U.S. Pat. No. 7,139,743 entitled “Associative Database Scanning and Information Retrieval using FPGA Devices”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2006/0294059 entitled “Intelligent Data Storage and Processing Using FPGA Devices”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0067108 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Performing Biosequence Similarity Searching”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0086274 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Protein Sequence Alignment Using FPGA Devices”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0130140 entitled “Method and Device for High Performance Regular Expression Pattern Matching”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0260602 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Approximate Pattern Matching”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0174841 entitled “Firmware Socket Module for FPGA-Based Pipeline Processing”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0237327 entitled “Method and System for High Throughput Blockwise Independent Encryption/Decryption”), U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0294157 entitled “Method and System for High Speed Options Pricing”, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/765,306, filed Jun. 19, 2007, entitled “High Speed Processing of Financial Information Using FPGA Devices” (and published as U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0243675), U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/938,732, filed Nov. 12, 2007, entitled “Method and System for High Performance Data Metatagging and Data Indexing Using Coprocessors” (published as U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0114725), U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/938,709, filed Nov. 12, 2007, entitled “Method and System for High Performance Integration, Processing and Searching of Structured and Unstructured Data Using Coprocessors” (published as U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0114724), and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/013,302, filed Jan. 11, 2008, entitled “Method and System for Low Latency Basket Calculation” (published as U.S. Patent Application Publication 2009/0182683), the entire disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
It should be understood that the range of actions which can triggered by the accelerated rule condition check operations described herein are virtually limitless and can be tailored to meet the particular needs of a practitioner of embodiments for the invention. Exemplary actions may include sending an alert to a designated person or group of persons, invoking a particular process within an enterprise computing system, deleting a record, placing a record into a holding queue, routing a record to a particular destination, etc. Furthermore, with respect to the conceptual “event/condition/action” (ECA) framework discussed in connection with
The data streams being operated upon by the embodiments of the present invention preferably comprise a plurality of records or events as represented by bit strings. It should be noted that the terms records and events are used interchangeably herein. A data record or event signifies a fact 100 such as that described in connection with
Many enterprises have one or more data feeds where extremely high volumes of data events are constantly streaming into the enterprise's computing system. To provide an enterprise with actionable intelligence capabilities with respect to such data streams, the inventors disclose various embodiments which accelerate the operations needed to determine which incoming events satisfy which pre-defined rules. Examples of operations which can be hardware-accelerated in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention include rule condition check operations (such as matching operations, range check operations, and threshold check operations), aggregate value computation operations, derived value computation operations, filtering operations, path merging operations, and formatting operations. It should be noted that the rule condition check operations can be performed directly on data values within the events themselves or on data values derived and/or aggregated from data values within the events themselves.
Preferably a pipeline is arranged in a coprocessor to check the incoming data streams against the rule conditions of the enterprise's business rules. Even more preferably, such a pipeline includes a plurality of different parallel paths for performing different ones of these checks simultaneously with one another.
Further still, the accelerated operations described herein are preferably deployed by an enterprise in systems such as event stream processors, complex event stream processors, and business rules engines.
Examples of the myriad of beneficial business rule-based applications for embodiments of the invention include data quality checking (particularly in data integration systems such as Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) systems), security monitoring for transactions such as credit card transactions, financial market monitoring, data routing within an enterprise based on data content, Rete network acceleration, and others, as explained in greater detail below.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon review of the following description and drawings.
Preferably, appliance 200 employs a hardware-accelerated data processing capability through coprocessor 450 to analyze an incoming data stream against a set of business rules. Within appliance 200, a coprocessor 450 is positioned to receive data that streams into the appliance 200 from a network 420 (via network interface 410). Network 420 preferably comprises an enterprise network (whether LAN or WAN), in which various disparate data sources are located. It should be understood that the data streaming into the appliance 200 through enterprise network 420 can be data that is received by network 420 from external sources such as the Internet or other communication networks. Such incoming data may comprise both structured and unstructured data as appliance 200 can provide beneficial business rules analysis for both.
The computer system defined by processor 412 and RAM 408 can be any commodity computer system as would be understood by those having ordinary skill in the art. For example, the computer system may be an Intel Xeon system or an AMD Opteron system. Thus, processor 412, which serves as the central or main processor for appliance 200, preferably comprises a GPP.
In a preferred embodiment, the coprocessor 450 comprises a reconfigurable logic device 402. Preferably, data streams into the reconfigurable logic device 402 by way of system bus 406, although other design architectures are possible (see
The reconfigurable logic device 402 has firmware modules deployed thereon that define its functionality. The firmware socket module 404 handles the data movement requirements (both command data and target data) into and out of the reconfigurable logic device, thereby providing a consistent application interface to the firmware application module (FAM) chain 350 that is also deployed on the reconfigurable logic device. The FAMs 350i of the FAM chain 350 are configured to perform specified data processing operations on any data that streams through the chain 350 from the firmware socket module 404. Preferred examples of FAMs that can be deployed on reconfigurable logic in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention are described below.
The specific data processing operation that is performed by a FAM is controlled/parameterized by the command data that FAM receives from the firmware socket module 404. This command data can be FAM-specific, and upon receipt of the command, the FAM will arrange itself to carry out the data processing operation controlled by the received command. For example, within a FAM that is configured to perform an exact match operation, the FAM's exact match operation can be parameterized to define the key(s) that the exact match operation will be run against. In this way, a FAM that is configured to perform an exact match operation can be readily re-arranged to perform a different exact match operation by simply loading new parameters for one or more different keys in that FAM.
Once a FAM has been arranged to perform the data processing operation specified by a received command, that FAM is ready to carry out its specified data processing operation on the data stream that it receives from the firmware socket module. Thus, a FAM can be arranged through an appropriate command to process a specified stream of data in a specified manner. Once the FAM has completed its data processing operation, another command can be sent to that FAM that will cause the FAM to re-arrange itself to alter the nature of the data processing operation performed thereby. Not only will the FAM operate at hardware speeds (thereby providing a high throughput of data through the FAM), but the FAMs can also be flexibly reprogrammed to change the parameters of their data processing operations.
The FAM chain 350 preferably comprises a plurality of firmware application modules (FAMs) 350a, 350b, . . . that are arranged in a pipelined sequence. However, it should be noted that within the firmware pipeline, one or more parallel paths of FAMs 350i can be employed. For example, the firmware chain may comprise three FAMs arranged in a first pipelined path (e.g., FAMs 350a, 350b, 350c) and four FAMs arranged in a second pipelined path (e.g., FAMs 350d, 350e, 350f, and 350g), wherein the first and second pipelined paths are parallel with each other. Furthermore, the firmware pipeline can have one or more paths branch off from an existing pipeline path. A practitioner of the present invention can design an appropriate arrangement of FAMs for FAM chain 350 based on the processing needs of a given application.
A communication path 430 connects the firmware socket module 404 with the input of the first one of the pipelined FAMs 350a. The input of the first FAM 350a serves as the entry point into the FAM chain 350. A communication path 432 connects the output of the final one of the pipelined FAMs 350m with the firmware socket module 404. The output of the final FAM 350m serves as the exit point from the FAM chain 350. Both communication path 430 and communication path 432 are preferably multi-bit paths.
The nature of the software and hardware/software interfaces used by appliance 200, particularly in connection with data flow into and out of the firmware socket module are described in greater detail in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0174841.
It is worth noting that in either the configuration of
In the example of
Any of a number of matching techniques can be used to perform the matching operation of matching module 602. For example, hardware-accelerated matching techniques can be used such as those described in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,711,558 and 7,139,743 and U.S. Patent Application Publications 2006/0294059, 2007/0130140, and 2007/0260602. The 2007/0130140 publication describes a technique whereby a data stream can be inspected at hardware speeds to assess whether any data serves as a match to any of a number of regular expression patterns. As such, the technology disclosed in the 2007/0130140 publication can preferably be used by matching module 602 to detect any matches to rule conditions 606 which are expressed as regular expression patterns. Also, the 2007/0260602 publication discloses a technique whereby a data stream can be inspected at hardware speeds to query a given window of the data stream against a large number of standing keys (of various lengths) to determine whether the data stream window is an approximate match (within a definable degree of tolerance) to any of the keys. It should be understood that the technology of the 2007/0260602 publication can also be used to support exact match operations by simply setting the tolerance degree to a value of zero. As such, the technology disclosed in the 2007/0260602 publication can be used by matching module 602 to detect any exact or approximate matches with respect to rule conditions 606 which are expressed as words. Additional examples of hardware-accelerated matching techniques which can be used by matching module 602 include the exact matching technique known as the Rabin-Karp Search (RKS) (see Brodie, Benjamin C., Roger D. Chamberlain, Berkley Shands, and Jason White, “Dynamic reconfigurable computing,” in Proc. Of 9th Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference, September 2006, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference) and the approximate matching technique known as the k-sub matching algorithm (see the above-referenced and incorporated article Brodie, Benjamin C., Roger D. Chamberlain, Berkley Shands, and Jason White, “Dynamic reconfigurable computing,” in Proc. Of 9th Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference, September 2006).
The enriched event stream 608 produced by coprocessor 450 can optionally then be passed along to downstream processing entities which are configured to take additional actions in response to the detected rule condition matches. As noted above, such an action engine 502 can be implemented in either hardware and/or software deployed on the coprocessor 450, a main processor for the system, and/or other processing device. However, it should be understood that the coprocessor 450 of
The hardware-accelerated rules-based decision-making system of
It should also be understood that the coprocessor 450 in a rules-based decision-making system may optionally employ modules in addition to or different than matching module 602.
It should also be noted that pipeline 710 may optionally employ a plurality of parallel paths, as shown in
In many instances, it will be desirable for the pipeline 710 to possess the capability to perform complex event stream processing. With complex event stream processing, the question of whether a rule is satisfied may require rule conditions which depend upon multiple events or events within different streams. As such, it is beneficial for coprocessor 450 to possess the ability to cache a desired window of received events and rule condition check results. In this manner, determinations can be made as to whether a rule condition whose satisfaction requires consideration of multiple events. To provide such caching capabilities, pipeline 710 employs a windowing module 720, as shown in
It may also be desirable for pipeline 710 to include a join/correlation module 730, as shown in
Optionally, the join/correlation module 730 may employ additional features such as a join to static data from a database. With a join to static data, the data to be joined would be read from a static database such as external database 734. In this way, a join operation can operate to add data which is stored in the database to the streaming records. An example of a join to static data that can be performed by pipeline 710 involves joining a stream of transaction records with data from a customer master table that is stored in a database 734. Using a join key such a name field in the stream of transaction records and a name field in the customer master table, joins can be performed on transaction records and customer data from the table that share the same value in a name field.
Another feature that can be performed by a join/correlation module is an approximate join. Continuing with the example above, an approximate join between a stream of transaction records and data from a customer master table, wherein the approximate join is based on a join key that is a name field, will support joins where there is only an approximate match and not an exact match between the values in the name fields of the transaction records and the customer table. Thus, a transaction record with a name field value of “John A. Smith” can be joined with customer data associated with a name field value of “John Smith” even through the two field values do not exactly match. As such, the join/correlation module 730 would employ approximate matching functionality that performs an approximate match operation between the values in the fields defined by the join key that are under consideration for a possible join. If the approximate match operation results in a determination that the two values are sufficiently similar, then the join is performed. Approximate matching technology such as the kinds previously discussed can be used for this functionality. It should also be understood that approximate joins need not be limited to joins on data stored in a database 734. Approximate joins can also be performed on multiple streams available to module 730. Furthermore, the approximate nature of the approximate join need not only be defined by approximate word matching operations. For example, with approximate joins on multiple data streams, it should be noted that because the time dimension of the multiple streams may not exactly align with each other, the value matching of the approximate join may be based on time intervals rather than exact times. Thus, if a time stamp field of records within two streams is used as a join key, then an approximate join operation can be configured such that any time stamp value within a range of time stamp values for the two streams will be deemed a match. To implement this functionality, a range check operation such as the ones described herein can be performed.
Pipeline 710 may also be configured to include an aggregation module 740, as shown in
In instances where the event stream 600 does not possess a record/field format for its data (or possesses a record/field format that is not recognized by pipeline 710), pipeline 710 may also employ a record and field identifier module 750 at its head, as shown in
It should also be understood that the arrangements for pipeline 710 shown in
Field and record splitter 1006 operates to parse the raw data stream 600 to identify where record delimiters and field delimiters from tables 1002 and 1004 should be inserted. Splitter 1006 is preferably provided with (offset, length) pairs which indicate where the different fields exist relative to the start of each record. Upon encountering a location where an FDL needs to be inserted, the splitter 1006 can access table 1002 to retrieve the appropriate FDL and insert that FDL into the record at that location. In this manner, the field and record splitter 1006 is able to produce an output stream 752 of data events that are partitioned into records and fields.
It should be understood that the field selection module 902 in each path of pipeline 900 can be configured to pass different fields based on the rule conditions within each path's rule set. That is, if incoming event stream 752 includes records partitioned into multiple fields, where one field is relevant to a rule condition within the first path's rule set but not any rule condition in the second path's rule set, then the field selection module 902 for the first path would be configured to pass that field while the field selection module 902 for the second path would be configured to block that field. In this manner, the field selection module 902 serves to lower the processing workload of downstream modules in each path.
It should be noted that module 904 is preferably only configured to output a match if any field within stream 1106 contains a data pattern which matches a regular expression pattern key. However, a given rule condition may require that the regular expression pattern key appear in a particular field of data. Thus, consider an example where a rule condition requires that regular expression A be present within field 3 of a record and where another rule condition requires that regular expression B be present within field 5 of a record. If a record with regular expression B within field 3 and regular expression A within field 5 is received by module 902, then module 902 will output two matches. However, to assess whether these two matches actually satisfy the rule conditions, a secondary check is needed to find if the match occurred for a valid field-regular expression combination. To accomplish this purpose, pipeline 900 employs secondary matching module 906.
An exemplary embodiment for a secondary matching module 906 is shown in
It should be noted that each field indexed by table 1302 may have multiple associated regular expression pattern identifiers. In such instances, it should also be noted that table 1302 can be alternatively configured such that the regular expression identifiers are used to index table entries, with the table entries being populated by field delimiters and rule condition identifiers.
The second path of pipeline 900 preferably includes a word separator module 908 downstream from that path's field selection module 902. An example of such a word separator module 908 is depicted in
While record join module 9141 receives input streams from the two rule condition checking paths of pipeline 900, record join module 9142 will receive as input streams the merged stream output by module 9141 and the original partitioned event stream 752 produced by module 750 (by way of bypass path 810). Thus, the record merge logic 1704 of module 9142 will operate to merge the enhanced records into the original partitioned event stream 752.
The enhanced records within 608 can then be streamed out of coprocessor 450 and returned to software running on the host system (e.g., software running on processor 412) or elsewhere within an enterprise computing system where post-processing in an action engine based on the enhancements can occur (if necessary) and the records can be inserted into an appropriately selected location in a relational database, saved to file, etc. within the enterprise computing system. It should also be noted that the stream 608 can be passed to additional modules within coprocessor 450 for post processing if desired.
It should be noted that pipeline 900 is also only exemplary in nature as different arrangements of paths and modules can be configured to meet a particular rule set. For example, it may be desirable to also employ a secondary matching module 906 in the exact/approximate word matching path.
It may also be desirable to process event streams against rule conditions that require consideration of multiple events, a process known as complex event processing (CEP).
Thus, as an enhanced record 1908 is received by the complex event generator 1902, a lookup 1916 can be performed in the table using the rule condition identifier 1330 in record 1908 to retrieve the running aggregate value x and alarm threshold y for that rule condition identifier (see retrievals 1920 and 1928 in
It should be understood that such aggregation processing could also be performed within a pipeline such as pipeline 900 if an appropriate aggregation module is located downstream from a matching module. It should also be understood that the aggregation processing shown by
Appliance 200 can thus be used to generate rule condition check results (and optionally additional secondary actions) for the incoming data stream as that data reaches the enterprise and before it lands in data storage somewhere within enterprise network 420. The data processed by appliance 200 can also include data originating from within the enterprise computing system 2004. Furthermore, appliance 200 can optionally be configured to output its generated rule condition results for delivery (or make its generated rule condition results available) to other processing entities within enterprise network 420 where rule-based post-processing can occur (such as taking one or more actions based on which rule conditions are shown to be satisfied within the enhanced stream produced by appliance 200). Further still, one or more terminals within enterprise network 420 can be configured to interface with appliance 200 to define the rule conditions and modules to be deployed in appliance 200.
Accelerated stream processing in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention provides a myriad of beneficial uses. For example, one area where the inventors believe that a great need exists for low latency event stream processing is data quality checking and data integration.
The first path of pipeline 2100 is configured to perform a range check operation on data fields within stream 2102 for which a rule exists that requires the data value for those fields to fall within specified ranges. Thus, field selection module 9021 is preferably configured to only pass fields within stream which have range constraints. Downstream from module 9021 is a range check module 2104. If range check module 2104 detects that a particular field's data value is outside of the range specified for that field by a rule condition, then range check module 2104 preferably produces a rule condition check result indicative of this error condition. In this way, the record with the invalid data range can be passed to an exception handling routine before being loaded into storage such as a database or the like.
The second path of pipeline 2100 is configured to perform a character check on those data fields within stream 2102 for which the characters must fall within a particular character set (e.g., the characters must be a number, must be a letter, must be a member of the ASCII character set, etc.). Thus, field selection module 9022 is preferably configured to only pass fields within stream which have a particular character set constraint. Downstream from module 9022 is a character parsing module 2106. Character parsing module 2106 operates to separate the characters within the select data fields. Character parsing module 2106 preferably operates in the manner of word parsing module 908 albeit for characters rather than words. Thereafter, character check module 2108 operates to determine if any character within the select field is not a member of the defined character set for that field. If module 2108 detects that a particular character value is not a member of a character set for that field as defined by a rule condition, then module 2108 preferably produces a rule condition check result indicative of this error condition. In this way, the record with the invalid character can be passed to an exception handling routine before being loaded into storage such as a database or the like. Module 2108 preferably operates using an exact matching module such as one based on the technology described above in connection with matching module 602.
The third path of pipeline 2100 is configured to perform a value check on those data fields within stream 2102 for which the value must be a member of a limited set of possible values (e.g., a “color” field which must take one value that is a member of the set {red, blue, green, white, black}). Thus, field selection module 9023 is preferably configured to only pass fields within stream which have a particular member set constraint (e.g., only the “color” fields of records within stream 2102 are passed by module 9023). Downstream from module 9023 is an exact word matching module 2110 that is keyed with the members of the pertinent member set (e.g., the keys are {red, blue, green, white, black}). If word matching module 2110 determines that the field value is not a member of the member set defined by the rule condition, then module 2110 preferably produces a rule condition check result indicative of this error condition. In this way, the record with the invalid field value can be passed to an exception handling routine before being loaded into storage such as a database or the like. Module 2110 preferably operates using an exact matching module such as one based on the technology described above in connection with matching module 602.
It should be noted that modules 2104, 2108, and/or 2110 can also be configured to generate one or more new events to indicate these error conditions rather than augmenting each of the affected records themselves.
Pipeline 2100 can be advantageously used in a data integration system such as an extract, transfer, load (ETL) system to provide an efficient means for ensuring that only quality data gets loaded into an enterprise's database(s). It should be understood that other data quality checking operations can be performed by a pipeline such as pipeline 2100 in a data integration system. For example, an additional data quality checking operation can be performed to identify whether data within select fields are properly formatted (e.g., ensuring that a bit length for a select field satisfies a rule condition, ensuring that a data value for a select field is right or left justified as required by a rule condition, etc.).
Another area where the inventors believe that a great need exists for low latency event stream processing with respect to business rules is the processing of high volumes of transactions such as credit card transactions.
The first path of pipeline 2200 is configured to check each transaction record for a valid credit card number. Thus, field selection module 9021 is preferably configured to pass only the credit card number field of each record. An exact word matching module 2204 is configured with the set of valid credit card numbers as keys. Thus, if the credit card number within the credit card number field of a record within stream 2202 is valid, then module 2204 will find a hit on one of its stored keys. If a hit is not found on one of the stored keys, then one or more bits can be added to the pertinent record to indicate the error condition. Based on this error condition, an enterprise can be timely informed of the attempted use of an invalid credit card number and can decline authorization for the transaction.
The second path of pipeline 2200 is configured to provide security based on a range check for the purchase amounts in credit card transaction records. In many instances of credit card fraud, the perpetrator will attempt to test the validity of a stolen card number by first seeing if he/she can obtain a approval for a very small transaction with the stolen card number. If approved, the perpetrator later attempts a much larger purchase. Another risk posed with respect to credit card fraud is where the perpetrator attempts to purchase extremely expensive items with the stolen card number. While a large purchase amount itself may not necessarily indicate a credit card number is being fraudulently used, a cardholder or credit card company may nevertheless want to be timely informed when large purchases are made. To provide low latency warnings regarding such low value and high value credit card transactions, the second path of pipeline 2200 employs a range check module 2206 that operates in a manner similar to that described in connection with
The alarm limits present in table 2220 can be defined for each credit card number by a credit card company based on their knowledge in the industry or even defined by credit card holders themselves. Appropriate command instructions (received by pipeline 2200 by way of firmware socket module 404) can be used to populate table 2220 with appropriate values. It should be noted that a credit card company may optionally choose to use the same alarm limits for all credit card numbers, in which case the credit card number-based lookup into table 2220 would not be needed, and field selection module 9022 can be configured to also strip out the credit card number field from each record. It should also be noted that an indirection table can be used by module 2206 to indirectly map each credit card number to entries in table 2220, thereby allowing the entries in table 2220 to be indexed in consecutive addresses. Such an indirection table could be particularly useful if a credit card company chose to associate alarm limits with sets of credit card numbers rather than each credit card number individually. It should further be noted that modules 2204, 2206, and/or 2208 can also be configured to generate one or more new events to indicate these security risk conditions rather than augmenting each of the affected records themselves.
The third path of pipeline 2200 is configured to provide security based on rule condition checks for various derived values generated from the credit card transaction records. Module 2208 can be configured to compute any of a number of derived values that may be relevant to security issues. For example, an unusually large purchase amount may be a cause for alarm. However, statistical processing is needed to keep track of values such as the historic average purchase amount for a credit card number and the current month's average purchase amount for a credit card number and to make decisions as to what qualifies as unusual purchasing activity. Another indicator for a security risk would be a sudden surge in the number of transactions over periods such as months, days, etc. To be timely warned of such potentially problematic situations, low latency aggregation and derived value computations are needed within pipeline 2200. A derived value check module 2208 can provide such functionality.
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It should be noted that the types of operations performed by module 2208 with respect to
Appropriate command instructions (received by pipeline 2200 by way of firmware socket module 404) can be used to populate table 2400 with appropriate values for values such as threshold 2416. It should be noted that an indirection table can be used by module 2208 to indirectly map each credit card number to entries in table 2400, thereby allowing the entries in table 2400 to be indexed in consecutive addresses.
Another area where the inventors believe that low latency event stream processing can provide significant advantages is with respect to the routing and secure storage of information such as social security numbers and credit card numbers within an enterprise. In many instances, an enterprise may choose (or may be required by law) to handle sensitive personal information in a more secure manner than other forms of enterprise data. Examples of such information which warrants specialized handling include social security numbers and credit card numbers. Such data may need to be specially encrypted and/or stored in particular databases. To comply with such requirements, it is desirable for an event stream processing appliance 200 to implement business rules which identify those incoming data events which contain such specialized information and then ensure that those data events are properly handled and routed within the enterprise computing system. Thus, a coprocessor within appliance 200 can employ a regular expression pattern matching module to detect which incoming data events contain patterns indicative of a social security number (e.g., nnn-nn-nnnn), a credit card number (e.g., nnnn-nnnn-nnnn-nnnn), and the like. Upon detection of such patterns in the incoming data events, those data events can be flagged with rule condition check results for special handling, which may include encryption and/or storage in particular databases. Based on such enhancements within the data events, other components within enterprise computing system can ensure that the sensitive data events are routed to appropriate handling routines.
Yet another area where the inventors believe that low latency event stream processing can provide significant advantages is enterprise protection of trade secrets. In such an instance, an enterprise may wish to employ appliance 200 of
Additional areas where the inventors believe that low latency event stream processing based on business rules would be helpful include the acceleration of XML payloads, streaming SQL, the processing of financial market feeds to provide functions such as financial risk management, processing high volume transactional data other than credit card transactions (e.g., general sales transactions, telephone call records, etc.), security incident monitoring and prevention, the collecting of auditing data for compliance monitoring, applications needing low latency aggregation and statistical computations, monitoring sensor data streams (e.g., RFID), the monitoring of pharmaceutical sales records to detect potential “hot spots” where an epidemic may be breaking out, and the monitoring of sales transactions to identify where inventories need to be quickly replenished.
Another beneficial application for low latency event stream processing is the acceleration of a Rete network.
Alpha nodes 2504 receive an incoming fact stream and test these facts individually against the different rule conditions of the rules. The hardware-accelerated rule condition check operations described herein can be used by alpha nodes 2504 for this purpose (such as the matching operations, range check operations, threshold check operations, etc. as described above). Preferably, the alpha nodes 2504 are configured to perform these rule condition check operations for the different conditions on each fact in parallel with one another. Any facts which satisfy C1 are stored in alpha memory 2506. Any facts which satisfy C2 are stored in alpha memory 2508. Any facts which satisfy C3 are stored in alpha memory 2510. Any facts which satisfy C4 are stored in alpha memory 2512, and any facts which satisfy C5 are stored in alpha memory 2514. Preferably, these alpha memories are deployed in available memory space of the coprocessor 450. Furthermore, preferably the alpha nodes 2504 are deployed as firmware application modules in a processing pipeline of coprocessor 450.
Beta nodes within the Rete network then operate to check for whether any of the facts in the alpha memories satisfy the joinder of different rule conditions required by the rule set. Preferably, the beta nodes are also deployed on the coprocessor 450. Beta node 2518 reads facts out of alpha memory 2506 and compares those records with dummy data within a dummy top node to store any matching facts in beta memory 2520 corresponding to C1. Given that this is the topmost beta node in the network 2500, all facts within memory 2506 will be written to memory 2520. Thus, the Rete network 2500 can eliminate the dummy top node 2516, beta node 2518, and beta memory 2520 if desired.
Thereafter, beta node 2522 will read facts out of alpha memory 2508 and facts out of beta memory 2520 to find if any of the facts are overlapping. If so, these facts satisfy both C1 and C2, and the beta node 2522 writes these facts to beta memory 2524.
Next, beta node 2526 reads facts out of alpha memory 2512 and beta memory 2524 to find if any of the facts are overlapping. If so, these facts satisfy C1, C2, and C4 and the beta node 2526 writes these facts to beta memory 2532. In parallel with beta node 2526, beta node 2528 operates to read facts out of alpha memory 2510 and beta memory 2524 to find if any of the facts are overlapping. If so, these facts satisfy C1, C2, and C3, thereby meeting the requirements of rule R1. Beta node 2528 writes these R1-compliant facts to beta memory 2530. Thus, any facts (or combination of facts) present in memory 2530 are known to satisfy rule R1.
Next, beta node 2534 reads facts out of alpha memory 2510 and beta memory 2532 to find if any of the facts are overlapping. If so, these facts satisfy C1, C2, C4, and C3, thereby meeting the requirements of rule R3. Beta node 2534 writes these R3-compliant facts to beta memory 2538. In parallel with beta node 2538, beta node 2540 operates to read facts out of alpha memory 2514 and beta memory 2532 to find if any of the facts are overlapping. If so, these facts satisfy C1, C2, C4, and C5, thereby meeting the requirements of rule R2. Beta node 2536 writes these R2-compliant facts to beta memory 2540. Thus, any facts present in memory 2538 are known to satisfy rule R3 and any facts present in memory 2540 are known to satisfy R2.
Preferably, the beta nodes are also deployed in the coprocessor 450 (preferably as firmware application modules within the coprocessor's processing pipeline). Furthermore, the beta memories are also preferably deployed in available memory space of the coprocessor 450. Through hardware-acceleration of the alpha nodes and beta nodes in pipelined firmware application modules, the inventors believe that dramatic improvements in performance can be made for Rete networks.
While for the preferred embodiments disclosed herein the coprocessor 450 comprises a reconfigurable logic device 402 such as an FPGA, it should be noted that the coprocessor 450 can be realized using other processing devices. For example, the coprocessor 450 may comprise graphics processor units (GPUs), general purpose graphics processors, chip multi-processors (CMPs), dedicated memory devices, complex programmable logic devices, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and other I/O processing components. Moreover, it should be noted that appliance 200 may employ a plurality of coprocessors 450 in either or both of a sequential and a parallel multi-coprocessor architecture.
The modules described herein can be readily developed as firmware application modules by a practitioner of various embodiments of the invention using the techniques described in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Patent Application Publication 2006/0294059.
While the present invention has been described above in relation to its preferred embodiments, various modifications may be made thereto that still fall within the invention's scope. Such modifications to the invention will be recognizable upon review of the teachings herein. Accordingly, the full scope of the present invention is to be defined solely by the appended claims and their legal equivalents.
This patent application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/222,054, filed Dec. 17, 2018, now U.S. Pat. No. 10,411,734, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/404,794, filed Jan. 12, 2017, now U.S. Pat. No. 10,158,377, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/759,430, filed Feb. 5, 2013, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,547,824, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/121,473, filed May 15, 2008, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,374,986, the entire disclosures of each of which are incorporated by reference herein.
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