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 <a target="_blank" href="https://siddhi.io/">Siddhi</a> is a cloud native **_Streaming_** and **_Complex Event Processing_** engine that understands **Streaming SQL queries** in order to capture events from diverse data sources, process them, detect complex conditions, and publish output to various endpoints in real time.