Towards Designing Future-Proof Data Processing Systems

Summary: Argues that reactive, incremental adaptations have produced unsustainable bloat in data-processing systems as workloads, formats, and execution environments evolve. Extracts principles from prior work and sketches modular, composable, environment- and workload-agnostic architectures for future-proof efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14018
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,721 | 25.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749669

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Authors

1. Michael Jungmair
2. Jana Giceva

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