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: 4479
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.4942386e-05
Overall Rank: 8,065 | 44.67%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989388

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Authors

1. Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili (ETH Zurich)
2. Tahmineh Sanamrad (ETH Zurich)
3. Peter M. Fischer (ETH Zurich)
4. Nesime Tatbul (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{esmaili_sigmod11,
        title = {{Changing Flights in Mid-air: A Model for Safely Modifying Continuous Queries}},
        author = {Esmaili, Kyumars Sheykh and Sanamrad, Tahmineh and Fischer, Peter M. and Tatbul, Nesime},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989388},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989388},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,117	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	7.7382559e-05
3,202	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.6409287e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
111	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00032990214
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030738755
150	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00029208207
587	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.00016106078
671	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00015154516
2,479	Microsoft CEP Server and Online Behavioral Targeting	2009	VLDB	8.521563e-05
3,220	Efficient Resumption of Interrupted Warehouse Loads	2000	SIGMOD	7.6272892e-05
3,321	Dynamic Plan Migration for Continuous Queries Over Data Streams	2004	SIGMOD	7.5216049e-05
3,707	Query Suspend and Resume	2007	SIGMOD	7.1818056e-05
4,517	Window-Aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams	2006	VLDB	6.6481605e-05
4,925	Query Languages and Data Models for Database Sequences and Data Streams	2004	VLDB	6.442888e-05
7,244	Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries	2007	VLDB	5.6638746e-05
7,577	Extending XQuery with Window Functions	2007	VLDB	5.5927837e-05

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