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The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter

Summary: Unifies Twitter's logs into a client-events Thrift-based framework with hierarchical event naming. Pre-materialized, compressed session sequences (~50× smaller) enable fast analytics and rapid, data-driven experimentation on large-scale logs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10415
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
6.0752535e-05
Overall Rank
4,563 | 68.29%
DOI
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2,929 WANalytics: Analytics for a Geo-Distributed Data-Intensive World 2015 CIDR 7.8792902e-05
4,859 The "Big Data" Ecosystem at LinkedIn 2013 SIGMOD 5.8680444e-05
4,889 GraphJet: Real-Time Content Recommendations at Twitter 2016 VLDB 5.8480413e-05
6,135 Fast Data in the Era of Big Data: Twitter's Real-Time Related Query Suggestion Architecture 2013 SIGMOD 5.1908958e-05
6,278 The Cosmos Big Data Platform at Microsoft: Over a Decade of Progress and a Decade to Look Forward 2021 VLDB 5.1241654e-05
6,900 PreLog: A Pre-trained Model for Log Analytics 2024 SIGMOD 4.8878659e-05
7,306 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 4.7626702e-05
7,926 Data Management for Social Networking 2016 PODS 4.6107647e-05
10,720 CoLA: Model Collaboration for Log-based Anomaly Detection 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,715 Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter 2018 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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
3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024217964
158 HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads 2009 VLDB 0.00040401371
776 Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience 2009 VLDB 0.00016765694
789 Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing) 2010 VLDB 0.00016602215
1,497 Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook 2011 SIGMOD 0.00011668393
2,340 Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment 2011 SIGMOD 9.001663e-05
2,658 Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure at Facebook 2010 SIGMOD 8.3634079e-05
3,120 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.533894e-05
3,606 Large-Scale Machine Learning at Twitter 2012 SIGMOD 6.9246371e-05
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