A streaming analytics engine developed by Microsoft Research is giving advertisers on the company’s Bing Web search service more timely analysis on how their ad campaigns are faring, according to the company.The streaming analytics engine, called Trill, can process data at two to four orders of magnitude faster than today’s typical streaming engines, Microsoft said. The company plans to expand its use to other Microsoft computing services as well.Trill functionality could be of interest to companies looking to analyze their data as it is streamed in from a live source, such as a social networking feed or live sensor data. Trill could compete with a new crop of open source stream processing engines built for these kinds of tasks, such as Apache Storm—which was created by Twitter—and Apache Spark.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here