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Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams

Summary: Photon: fault-tolerant, scalable joining of continuous streams across distributed data centers. Handles unordered or delayed streams with no duplicates (at-most-once) and progress toward exactly-once semantics; deployed in Google's Advertising System, delivering sub-10s latency for millions of events. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4682
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00012820565
Overall Rank
1,284 | 91.08%
DOI
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189 Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services 2011 CIDR 0.00035934191
191 The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine 2005 CIDR 0.00035714897
962 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015003834
984 Streaming Queries over Streaming Data 2002 VLDB 0.00014840586
1,307 Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore 2011 VLDB 0.0001267155
1,693 How Soccer Players Would do Stream Joins 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010886797
1,712 Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams 2003 SIGMOD 0.00010786152
2,768 Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 8.1518597e-05
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