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: 12272
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.5957133e-05
Overall Rank: 8,040 | 44.13%
DOI: 10.14778/3377369.3377381

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,742	Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows	2024	VLDB	4.4520434e-05
9,199	Demonstration of Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-Based Data Analytics in Texera	2022	VLDB	4.3706402e-05
9,882	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	4.2594931e-05
10,846	ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,887	IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,999	Pasta: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Generating Pipelining Schedules for Dataflow DAGs	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,215	Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,245	Fries: Fast and Consistent Runtime Reconfiguration in Dataflow Systems with Transactional Guarantees	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,412	Machine Programming: Turning Data into Programmer Productivity	2022	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,623	Demonstration of Interactive Runtime Debugging of Distributed Dataflows in Texera	2020	VLDB	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
2,030	Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark	2016	VLDB	9.734332e-05
3,551	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	6.9776252e-05
4,152	Query Suspend and Resume	2007	SIGMOD	6.4009383e-05
5,108	Debugging Big Data Analytics in Spark with BigDebug	2017	SIGMOD	5.6872497e-05
5,348	Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows	2011	SIGMOD	5.5554072e-05
5,948	Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database	2017	CIDR	5.2575489e-05
8,111	Resumable Online Index Rebuild in SQL Server	2017	VLDB	4.5804259e-05

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