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Storm @Twitter

Summary: Describes Storm, a real-time, fault-tolerant distributed stream processing system deployed at Twitter at scale. Covers architecture, topology execution, scale-out, and fault tolerance, with empirical resilience data and production-time lessons. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4858
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00028939871
Overall Rank
288 | 98.00%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2595641

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9,953 Distributed Stream KNN Join 2021 SIGMOD 4.2405999e-05
10,043 Accelerating Stream Processing Engines via Hardware Offloading 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,410 Oceanus: Enable SLO-Aware Vertical Autoscaling for Cloud-Native Streaming Services in Tencent 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,417 Streaming Democratized: Ease Across the Latency Spectrum with Delayed View Semantics and Snowflake Dynamic Tables 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,862 How Reliable Are Streams? End-to-End Processing-Guarantee Validation and Performance Benchmarking of Stream Processing Systems 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,962 Fault Tolerance Placement in the Internet of Things 2024 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,154 Templating Shuffles 2023 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,194 A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation 2023 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,435 Synchronization Schemas 2021 PODS 4.1945683e-05
11,468 Klink: Progress-Aware Scheduling for Streaming Data Systems 2021 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,603 Demand-based Sensor Data Gathering with Multi-Query Optimization 2020 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,625 InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases (Extended) 2020 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,673 Online Template Induction for Machine-Generated Emails 2019 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,709 Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter 2018 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,728 Challenges and Experiences in Building an Efficient Apache Beam Runner For IBM Streams 2018 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,774 Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data 2017 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,797 Runtime Optimization of Join Location in Parallel Data Management Systems 2017 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,802 Query-able Kafka: An agile data analytics pipeline for mobile wireless networks 2017 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,846 Real-time Video Recommendation Exploration 2016 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,849 The Challenges of Global-scale Data Management 2016 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,859 dmapply: A functional primitive to express distributed machine learning algorithms in R 2016 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,909 CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams 2015 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,928 CANDS: Continuous Optimal Navigation via Distributed Stream Processing 2015 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
113 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.00046764513
191 The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine 2005 CIDR 0.00035738595
314 MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale 2013 VLDB 0.00028084774
1,222 Querying and Mining Data Streams: You Only Get One Look 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013213129
1,286 Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams 2013 SIGMOD 0.0001282373
1,802 Towards a Streaming SQL Standard 2008 VLDB 0.00010509786
2,597 Continuous Queries in Oracle 2007 VLDB 8.4713998e-05
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