[rules-users] Performance scaling with fact insertion

I was running some performance analysis on my rules so I could tune in hopes of scaling up from hundreds of thousands of datapoints to millions of entries and noticed some alarming performance scaling issues when rules are firing and inserting dependent objects. At first I thought it was one of my more complex rules but when I broke down my examples to the simplest possible test cases I found that the central problem was that performance was not linear with number of facts inserted -- it was polynominal (roughly n^2.5). My simplest test example was basically each fact inserted initially would trigger a new logical relationship fact to be inserted. No fancy logic. Also it could not trigger itself recursively. I tried three approaches : logical inserts of new facts, manual inserts/retraction, and update of the current fact with new data. Updates on current fact were roughly linear assuming I prevented re-firing. Manual Inserts and retracts scaled with O(n^2.5) LogicalInserts were O(n^3) The documentation suggest insertion of dependent facts to simplify logic. But when dealing with tens of thousands of events triggering it did not scale sufficiently. Can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong? I have included rules and data below. This was on 5.3 using fireAllRules. The time measured was rule execution only and excluded times due to my testing framework. // SIMPLIFIED RULES FILE declare DataPoint anomaly : boolean entityId : String average : double predict : double predictDev : double timestamp : long end declare AnomalyFact entityId : String anomalyType : AnomalyType ruleName : String timestamp : long end rule "Traffic Below 4 Deviations" no-loop when $datapoint : DataPoint ( anomaly==false, average < (predict - (predictDev * 4)) ) then // update self only. This line was always active. modify($datapoint) {setAnomaly(true)}; // on logicalInsert test I commented in the following line // insertLogical( new AnomalyFact ( $datapoint.getEntityId(), AnomalyEnum.LOW, drools.getRule().getName(), $datapoint.getTimestamp())); // on insert test I commented in the following line and added another rule to retract any anomaly with no datapoint // insert( new AnomalyFact ( $datapoint.getEntityId(), AnomalyEnum.LOW, drools.getRule().getName(), $datapoint.getTimestamp())); end /* TEST RESULT CONTAINED BELOW All data inserted triggered the rule. I was load testing for worst case behavior. logicalInsert n run1 run2 run3 5000 1293 1232 1767 10000 9458 8210 10079 15000 24389 31050 24311 30000 134936 manual insert/retract n run1 run2 run3 5000 1137 1094 1169 10000 8090 5862 5616 15000 16741 16728 15874 30000 76034 update on current object only n run1 run2 run3 5000 417 444 413 10000 600 15000 712 697 688 30000 999 970 1041 1016 1163 60000 1420 100000 1930 Thanks for any help! */