Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine

Summary: Distributed Borealis stream processing (Aurora/Medusa heritage) emphasizing dynamic resource management, query optimization, and high availability. Demonstration uses a multiplayer game workload with visual performance monitoring to illustrate distributed operation and trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3706
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.6537475e-05
Overall Rank: 5,164 | 64.08%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,640	Communication-Efficient Distributed Monitoring of Thresholded Counts	2006	SIGMOD	0.0001104808
4,649	Window-Aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams	2006	VLDB	6.0236001e-05
7,334	Streaming in a Connected World: Querying and Tracking Distributed Data Streams	2007	SIGMOD	4.7604215e-05
9,733	ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems	2023	VLDB	4.2942813e-05
10,546	Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,169	Applications of Sketching and Pathways to Impact	2023	PODS	4.1945683e-05
11,909	CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams	2015	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
191	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00035738595
591	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00019569071
600	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.0001938744
726	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00017511209
2,182	Aurora: A Data Stream Management System	2003	SIGMOD	9.3449021e-05
2,407	Operator Scheduling in a Data Stream Manager*	2003	VLDB	8.8804679e-05

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