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Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge
Summary: Helios is a hyperscale cloud/edge indexing system that feeds real-time streams into relational engines. It ingests quadrillions of events and indexes trillions of keys daily across dozens of data centers, using a simple data model and asynchronous indexing - a scalable blueprint for Microsoft-scale analytics.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 12206
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2020
- Pagerank
- 5.1357476e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,241 | 56.63%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3415478.3415547
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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 |
| 2 |
R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching |
1984 |
SIGMOD |
0.0032118946 |
| 22 |
SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets |
2008 |
VLDB |
0.00084679526 |
| 54 |
PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform |
2008 |
VLDB |
0.0006582344 |
| 66 |
Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00061707583 |
| 87 |
Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
0.00052844656 |
| 101 |
The Case for Learned Index Structures |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
0.00049778866 |
| 156 |
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
0.00040580118 |
| 160 |
Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases |
2000 |
VLDB |
0.00040053897 |
| 189 |
Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services |
2011 |
CIDR |
0.00035934191 |
| 237 |
An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server |
1997 |
VLDB |
0.00031727601 |
| 242 |
Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) |
1995 |
VLDB |
0.00031093647 |
| 283 |
Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design |
2004 |
SIGMOD |
0.00029024583 |
| 287 |
Storm @Twitter |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
0.00028917909 |
| 314 |
MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00028059664 |
| 371 |
Self-Driving Database Management Systems |
2017 |
CIDR |
0.00025382677 |
| 521 |
Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash |
2011 |
CIDR |
0.0002114053 |
| 536 |
The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00020651621 |
| 1,097 |
Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00014083973 |
| 1,546 |
Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011418993 |
| 1,980 |
Split Query Processing in Polybase |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
9.8740305e-05 |
| 2,519 |
Concurrency and Recovery in Generalized Search Trees |
1997 |
SIGMOD |
8.6048934e-05 |
| 3,044 |
Azure Data Lake Store: A Hyperscale Distributed File Service for Big Data Analytics |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
7.6624689e-05 |
| 3,055 |
Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data |
2011 |
CIDR |
7.6478224e-05 |
| 3,551 |
Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems |
2018 |
VLDB |
6.9776252e-05 |
| 7,600 |
Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale |
2016 |
VLDB |
4.697054e-05 |
| 8,633 |
Demonstration: MacroBase, A Fast Data Analysis Engine |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
4.4759033e-05 |
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