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The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing

Summary: Proposes Dataflow Model, an abstraction for unbounded streams, enabling event-time processing with tunable correctness, latency, and cost. Advocates ongoing arrival and possible retractions, with formal semantics, core principles, and validation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11058
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00020651621
Overall Rank
536 | 96.28%
DOI
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4,490 Analyzing Efficient Stream Processing on Modern Hardware 2019 VLDB 6.137834e-05
4,797 Rhino: Efficient Management of Very Large Distributed State for Stream Processing Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.9101178e-05
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5,292 StreamOps: Cloud-Native Runtime Management for Streaming Services in ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.5784769e-05
5,357 LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors 2020 SIGMOD 5.5512343e-05
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6,133 Optimal and General Out-of-Order Sliding-Window Aggregation 2019 VLDB 5.1917864e-05
6,241 Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge 2020 VLDB 5.1357476e-05
6,430 Providing Streaming Joins as a Service at Facebook 2018 VLDB 5.0587634e-05
6,628 A Holistic View of Stream Partitioning Costs 2017 VLDB 4.9833118e-05
6,726 Beyond Analytics: The Evolution of Stream Processing Systems 2020 SIGMOD 4.9444528e-05
6,760 AStream: Ad-hoc Shared Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 4.9304882e-05
6,769 Watermarks in Stream Processing Systems: Semantics and Comparative Analysis of Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow 2021 VLDB 4.9274854e-05
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7,371 Hazelcast Jet: Low-latency Stream Processing at the 99.99th Percentile 2021 VLDB 4.744863e-05
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7,600 Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale 2016 VLDB 4.697054e-05
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8,142 Erebus: Explaining the Outputs of Data Streaming Queries 2023 VLDB 4.5724134e-05
8,214 Spur: Mitigating Slow Instances in Large-Scale Streaming Pipelines 2020 SIGMOD 4.5524768e-05
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9,220 Elasticutor: Rapid Elasticity for Realtime Stateful Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 4.3670162e-05
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