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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
0.0002031664
Overall Rank
358 | 97.52%
DOI
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3,277 Timon: A Timestamped Event Database for Efficient Telemetry Data Processing and Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 7.6339617e-05
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3,778 Analyzing Efficient Stream Processing on Modern Hardware 2019 VLDB 7.1851487e-05
4,114 Rhino: Efficient Management of Very Large Distributed State for Stream Processing Engines 2020 SIGMOD 6.9553427e-05
4,318 Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka 2021 SIGMOD 6.8363529e-05
4,749 LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors 2020 SIGMOD 6.5984973e-05
4,856 One SQL to Rule Them All – an Efficient and Syntactically Idiomatic Approach to Management of Streams and Tables 2019 SIGMOD 6.5414245e-05
5,465 TcpRT: Instrument and Diagnostic Analysis System for Service Quality of Cloud Databases at Massive Scale in Real-time 2018 SIGMOD 6.276117e-05
5,708 Optimal and General Out-of-Order Sliding-Window Aggregation 2019 VLDB 6.1797581e-05
5,729 StreamOps: Cloud-Native Runtime Management for Streaming Services in ByteDance 2023 VLDB 6.170083e-05
5,930 Providing Streaming Joins as a Service at Facebook 2018 VLDB 6.1000158e-05
5,958 Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge 2020 VLDB 6.0886149e-05
6,342 A Holistic View of Stream Partitioning Costs 2017 VLDB 5.9697897e-05
6,357 Watermarks in Stream Processing Systems: Semantics and Comparative Analysis of Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow 2021 VLDB 5.9654209e-05
6,403 AStream: Ad-hoc Shared Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 5.952729e-05
6,505 Beyond Analytics: The Evolution of Stream Processing Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.9144751e-05
7,091 Intermittent Query Processing 2019 VLDB 5.7589718e-05
7,161 Hazelcast Jet: Low-latency Stream Processing at the 99.99th Percentile 2021 VLDB 5.7442397e-05
7,383 CYADB: A Database that Covers Your Ask 2018 VLDB 5.6897772e-05
7,450 Ananke: A Streaming Framework for Live Forward Provenance 2021 VLDB 5.6770418e-05
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7,687 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.6249337e-05
7,978 Erebus: Explaining the Outputs of Data Streaming Queries 2023 VLDB 5.5692809e-05
8,068 Spur: Mitigating Slow Instances in Large-Scale Streaming Pipelines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5526491e-05
8,486 Prompt: Dynamic Data-Partitioning for Distributed Micro-batch Stream Processing Systems 2020 SIGMOD 5.4875448e-05
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9,089 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 5.3857237e-05
9,141 Differentially Private Stream Processing at Scale* 2024 VLDB 5.3750713e-05
9,200 Elasticutor: Rapid Elasticity for Realtime Stateful Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 5.3688031e-05
9,328 Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink® 2.0 2025 VLDB 5.3449422e-05
9,402 Vortex: A Stream-oriented Storage Engine For Big Data Analytics 2024 SIGMOD 5.3341661e-05
9,592 GeaFlow: A Graph Extended and Accelerated Dataflow System 2023 SIGMOD 5.3086438e-05
9,790 Dalton: Learned Partitioning for Distributed Data Streams 2023 VLDB 5.2719963e-05
9,805 Railgun: managing large streaming windows under MAD requirements 2021 VLDB 5.2708329e-05
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10,077 Enjima: A Resource-Adaptive Stream Processing System 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,183 Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,259 Scarf: Self-Adaptive Tuning via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Apache Flink 2026 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
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