Event Processing - past, present and future

Summary: Tutorial tracing event processing from active/temporal databases, stream management, and distributed systems to enterprise platforms. Surveys architectures, building blocks, programming paradigms, and open research challenges distinguishing event processing from related concepts. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10349
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.2052701e-05
Overall Rank: 9,862 | 32.34%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921065

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Authors

1. Opher Etzion (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{etzion_vldb10,
        title = {{Event Processing - past, present and future}},
        author = {Etzion, Opher},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1651},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921065},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921065},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,680	Beyond Analytics: The Evolution of Stream Processing Systems	2020	SIGMOD	5.8049764e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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