Connecting to Streams over a Network

This section describes native stream formats.

As we mentioned earlier, the Sybase CEP Engine reads and writes data only in its native stream formats. Every adapter writes to (or reads from) a stream in one of these formats. The formats are:

• Binary

• XML

• CSV

This chapter describes how to connect directly to a Sybase CEP stream over the network and how to publish or subscribe to a stream after you've connected to it directly.

• Data Stream URI
  Each native data stream has a URI that uniquely identifies the stream.
• Subscribing to a Data Stream
  To receive data from a Sybase CEP data stream, the subscriber must perform an HTTP GET request to the Sybase CEP Server.
• Publishing to a Data Stream
  To publish data to a Sybase CEP data stream, perform an HTTP POST request to the Sybase CEP Server.
• Infiniband Support
  If you are using a pure Infiniband network, you can configure Sybase CEP to send messages between servers over the SDP, providing high performance, low latency communication.
• Data Stream Formats
  A description of Binary, Comma-Separated Value (CSV), and XML data types in Sybase CEP.