Querying at Internet Scale

Summary: PIER is a distributed query processor for Internet-scale data management atop a DHT. It adds declarative algebraic queries and in-network, multihop joins, aggregation, recursion, enabling scalable monitoring, search, and topology mapping on PlanetLab. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3665
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,891 | 4.70%
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007705

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Authors

1. Brent Chun (Intel)
2. Joseph M. Hellerstein (Intel; University of California Berkeley)
3. Ryan Huebsch (University of California Berkeley)
4. Shawn R. Jeffery (University of California Berkeley)
5. Boon Thau Loo (University of California Berkeley)
6. Sam Mardanbeigi (University of California Berkeley)
7. Timothy Roscoe (Intel)
8. Sean Rhea (University of California Berkeley)
9. Scott Shenker (International Computer Science Institute; University of California Berkeley)
10. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chun_sigmod04,
        title = {{Querying at Internet Scale}},
        author = {Chun, Brent and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Huebsch, Ryan and Jeffery, Shawn R. and Loo, Boon Thau and Mardanbeigi, Sam and Roscoe, Timothy and Rhea, Sean and Shenker, Scott and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007705},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007705},
        year = {2004}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
562	Querying the Internet with PIER	2003	VLDB	0.00016509814

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