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Railgun: managing large streaming windows under MAD requirements
Summary: Railgun: elastic distributed streaming with true long-horizon sliding windows under MAD, avoiding fixed-window shortcuts. Outperforms Flink on latency; scales near-linearly to 1M events/s with ms latency and memory independent of window size.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 12513
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2021
- Pagerank
- 4.2766788e-05
- Overall Rank
- 9,806 | 31.85%
- DOI
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10.14778/3476311.3476384
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| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 41 |
NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases |
2000 |
SIGMOD |
0.00073944756 |
| 43 |
Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems |
2002 |
PODS |
0.00072660894 |
| 143 |
TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World |
2003 |
CIDR |
0.00041688468 |
| 191 |
The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine |
2005 |
CIDR |
0.00035714897 |
| 287 |
Storm @Twitter |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
0.00028917909 |
| 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 |
| 822 |
Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00016226851 |
| 1,467 |
SPADE: The System S Declarative Stream Processing Engine |
2008 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011838188 |
| 1,546 |
Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011418993 |
| 2,188 |
Aurora: A Data Stream Management System |
2003 |
SIGMOD |
9.3378116e-05 |
| 2,339 |
Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn |
2017 |
VLDB |
9.0029559e-05 |
| 4,673 |
Continuous Analytics: Rethinking Query Processing in a Network-Effect World |
2009 |
CIDR |
6.0000861e-05 |
| 5,357 |
LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
5.5512343e-05 |
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