Amber: A Debuggable Dataflow System Based on the Actor Model

Summary: Amber is a debuggable dataflow system on the actor model for live in-flight analytics debugging. Pause, inspect state, modify and resume tasks, and set conditional breakpoints; Orleans-based implementation that demonstrates strong performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12271
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.600124e-05
Overall Rank: 8,038 | 44.09%
DOI: 10.14778/3377369.3377381

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,746	Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows	2024	VLDB	4.456315e-05
9,197	Demonstration of Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-Based Data Analytics in Texera	2022	VLDB	4.3748331e-05
9,883	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	4.2635782e-05
10,842	ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,883	IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,996	Pasta: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Generating Pipelining Schedules for Dataflow DAGs	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,213	Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,243	Fries: Fast and Consistent Runtime Reconfiguration in Dataflow Systems with Transactional Guarantees	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,409	Machine Programming: Turning Data into Programmer Productivity	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,619	Demonstration of Interactive Runtime Debugging of Distributed Dataflows in Texera	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
2,027	Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark	2016	VLDB	9.7437067e-05
3,550	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	6.9843512e-05
4,155	Query Suspend and Resume	2007	SIGMOD	6.4030559e-05
5,106	Debugging Big Data Analytics in Spark with BigDebug	2017	SIGMOD	5.6927181e-05
5,341	Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows	2011	SIGMOD	5.5607484e-05
5,945	Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database	2017	CIDR	5.2622326e-05
8,106	Resumable Online Index Rebuild in SQL Server	2017	VLDB	4.5847706e-05

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