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: 4418
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.6196344e-05
Overall Rank: 7,893 | 45.15%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,040	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.6672864e-05
3,551	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	6.9776252e-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
143	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00041688468
191	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00035714897
194	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00035402379
601	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.00019372971
723	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00017493042
2,884	Microsoft CEP Server and Online Behavioral Targeting	2009	VLDB	7.9658952e-05
3,156	Efficient Resumption of Interrupted Warehouse Loads	2000	SIGMOD	7.4684223e-05
3,770	Dynamic Plan Migration for Continuous Queries Over Data Streams	2004	SIGMOD	6.7743365e-05
4,152	Query Suspend and Resume	2007	SIGMOD	6.4009383e-05
4,647	Window-Aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams	2006	VLDB	6.01732e-05
5,284	Query Languages and Data Models for Database Sequences and Data Streams	2004	VLDB	5.5834113e-05
7,084	Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries	2007	VLDB	4.8330538e-05
7,669	Extending XQuery with Window Functions	2007	VLDB	4.6784108e-05

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