Question

What Is Long Term Fact And Short Term Fact?

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Short-Term Facts

A short-term fact is specific to a single execution cycle of the rule engine. Short-term facts are retracted automatically from the working memory of the rule engine after the policy executes. If your data changes between execution cycles of the rule engine for a policy, you submit the data as a short-term fact to the rule engine.

Long-Term Facts

A long-term fact is loaded into the working memory of the rule engine for use over an arbitrary number of execution cycles. Typically, long-term facts are slowly changing facts that do not typically change between executions of a policy. For example, you may want to create a database connection only once, and execute the policy several times by using the same database connection. The only real distin