The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor

Summary: PIER: first general-purpose relational query engine for Internet-scale p2p networks, supporting massively distributed snapshot and continuous queries across thousands–millions of nodes. Unique for repurposing overlay networks for dissemination, operator placement, and compact data/metadata management in a decentralized Java DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 48
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 9.7745226e-05
Overall Rank: 1,780 | 87.79%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ryan Huebsch (University of California Berkeley)
2. Brent Chun (University of California Berkeley)
3. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
4. Boon Thau Loo (University of California Berkeley)
5. Petros Maniatis (Intel)
6. Timothy Roscoe (Intel)
7. Scott Shenker (University of California Berkeley)
8. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
9. Aydan R. Yumerefendi (Intel)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{huebsch_cidr05,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '05},
        title = {{The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Huebsch, Ryan and Chun, Brent and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Loo, Boon Thau and Maniatis, Petros and Roscoe, Timothy and Shenker, Scott and Stoica, Ion and Yumerefendi, Aydan R.},
        year = {2005}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
972	Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012874501
1,800	A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications	2009	CIDR	9.7290813e-05
2,234	Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention	2016	SIGMOD	8.8937932e-05
2,813	KLEE: A Framework for Distributed Top-k Query Algorithms	2005	VLDB	8.0975254e-05
9,141	Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System	2007	VLDB	5.3158069e-05
9,718	Sharing Aggregate Computation for Distributed Queries	2007	SIGMOD	5.2323504e-05
12,553	Paths to Stardom: Calibrating the Potential of a Peer-based Data Management System	2008	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,588	P3N: Profiling the Potential of a Peer-based Data Management System	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,591	DObjects: Enabling Distributed Data Services for Metacomputing Platforms	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,616	The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,617	P2P Web Search: Make It Light, Make It Fly	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,623	Public Health for the Internet (phi): Towards A New Grand Challenge for Information Management	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,687	Quality-Aware Distributed Data Delivery for Continuous Query Services	2006	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00041071971
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
328	An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration*	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021081317
342	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00020673706
562	Querying the Internet with PIER	2003	VLDB	0.00016509814
1,090	Scalable Distributed Stream Processing	2003	CIDR	0.0001224178
1,596	Adaptive Parallel Aggregation Algorithms	1995	SIGMOD	0.00010247091
2,237	Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems	2003	CIDR	8.8901709e-05
2,513	Tuple Routing Strategies for Distributed Eddies	2003	VLDB	8.48462e-05
4,283	Lifting the Burden of History from Adaptive Query Processing	2004	VLDB	6.7836167e-05
4,332	The Price of Validity in Dynamic Networks	2004	SIGMOD	6.755994e-05
6,140	Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2004	VLDB	5.9632265e-05

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