Load Management and High Availability in the Medusa Distributed Stream Processing System

Summary: Load management and high availability for a distributed stream processor; Medusa handles time-varying load spikes and network partitions. Demonstrated within Borealis, a second-generation engine built on Aurora and Medusa. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3601
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.7104711e-05
Overall Rank: 5,075 | 64.73%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
908	Design Considerations for High Fan-in Systems: The HiFi Approach	2005	CIDR	0.00015405471
3,391	Estimating Statistical Aggregates on Probabilistic Data Streams	2007	PODS	7.1427968e-05
7,878	Thread Cooperation in Multicore Architectures for Frequency Counting over Multiple Data Streams	2009	VLDB	4.6257581e-05
10,292	Meerkat: Scalable, Network-Aware Failure Recovery for the Internet of Things	2026	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
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
1,343	Scalable Distributed Stream Processing	2003	CIDR	0.00012478318
1,362	Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant, Parallel Dataflows	2004	SIGMOD	0.00012380613

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