Changing Flights in Mid-air: A Model for Safely Modifying Continuous Queries

Summary: Presents a punctuation-based model for safe runtime modification of continuous queries, encoding start/stop via IO mappings. Characterizes a set of change methods with guarantees and efficiency, and demonstrates deployment in modern stream engine. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4417
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.6240987e-05
Overall Rank: 7,893 | 45.10%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,034	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.6752083e-05
3,550	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	6.9843512e-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
142	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00041725802
191	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00035738595
194	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00035426067
600	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.0001938744
726	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00017511209
2,879	Microsoft CEP Server and Online Behavioral Targeting	2009	VLDB	7.9695819e-05
3,166	Efficient Resumption of Interrupted Warehouse Loads	2000	SIGMOD	7.4531699e-05
3,761	Dynamic Plan Migration for Continuous Queries Over Data Streams	2004	SIGMOD	6.7804871e-05
4,155	Query Suspend and Resume	2007	SIGMOD	6.4030559e-05
4,649	Window-Aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams	2006	VLDB	6.0236001e-05
5,284	Query Languages and Data Models for Database Sequences and Data Streams	2004	VLDB	5.584855e-05
7,088	Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries	2007	VLDB	4.8376651e-05
7,670	Extending XQuery with Window Functions	2007	VLDB	4.682982e-05

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