FINCoS: benchmark tools for event processing systems

FINCoS is a set of benchmarking tools for load generation and performance measuring of event processing systems. It leverages the development of novel benchmarks by allowing researchers to create synthetic workloads, and enables users of the technology to evaluate candidate solutions using their own real datasets. An extensible set of adapters allows the framework to communicate with different CEP engines, and its architecture permits to distribute load generation across multiple nodes. In this paper we briefly review FINCoS, introducing its main characteristics and features, and discussing how it measures the performance of event processing platforms.