FlowRunner - Indexing and Searching

As workflow processes run they build a data store that can be of great value. FlowRunner data layer stores the field-level audit trail which is the most granular level possible.

Quite often the historical audit trail needs to be queried. FlowRunner provides a simple but powerful environment for querying instance data based on arbitrary data fields.

The software employs one of the leading java open source search engines in the industry. The searching technology is very advanced - it allows querying megabytes of data in seconds.

• FlowRunner operates by building a search index as procedures run and modify runtime data.  All data changes are added to the index incrementally. This means if the value of a field was changed from "one" to "two" the search for either value will succeed returning the relevant audit trail entry that resulted in this change
   
• Incremental search index gets build automatically as instances progress
   
• Multiple versions of the same process are also indexed
   
• Indexed data becomes available for searching almost immediately
   
• Event-driven data indexing can be configured to take place after a step release or upon instance completion
   
• Size of the generated index is only a fraction of the actual data size
   
• Complex search criteria are supported
   
• Index can be rebuilt using included utilities
   
• Queries are extremely fast - take only seconds even on large data sets