[rules-users] Re: Drools and BRMS (60,000+ rules)
Mark Proctor wrote:
Carlsen, Len wrote:
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>
> Other issues are the performance of the Drools Solver and having
> thousands of rules compiled, loaded and running. During registration
> we could have thousands of rules executing concurrently. The rules
> engine and the BRMS would be services as part of an SOA infrastructure
> (and an OSGi service environment). Anyone got any experience with
> Drools in an OSGi environment with respect to class loading issues
> when compiling rules and facts from other bundles since rules and
> facts may be in different bundles? Bundle buddy class loading?
>
No but it is something that interests us, please give us your OSGi
feedback. Solver is not currently a supported product, its very much R&D
alphaware, but I'm sure geoffrey would love your feedback, good to see
people are evaluating it.
yes, feedback on solver is very welcome :)
The good news is, I am now working on an example called Examination,
which is an implementation for the itc2007 examination competition:
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/itc2007/examtrack/exam_track_index_files/exameval...
It's based on real-world data. The "starter" dataset contains 7883
students, 607 exams, 54 periods and 7 rooms. There are 5 hard
constraints and 7 soft constraints:
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/itc2007/examtrack/exam_track_index_files/exameval...
The bad news is, it's not performing yet, because I need to make a
scalable selector implementation, which I am working on.
There's an example called lesson schedule (which schedules courses), but
that's just a toy example to learn drools-solver, at it just has 2 hard
constraints.
One piece of advice though: separate the solver part from the rest. Once
the solver starts calculating, you 'll only want to have score-related
rules in the rulebase. The solver can easily do a million fireAllRules
per minute, so every performance loss is blown up.
With kind regards,
Geoffrey De Smet