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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
4859
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00024818518
Overall Rank
214 | 98.52%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2595641

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
222 MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale 2013 VLDB 0.00024389768
596 Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale 2015 SIGMOD 0.00016038481
1,177 Dhalion: Self-Regulating Stream Processing in Heron 2017 VLDB 0.00011908392
1,336 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011216887
1,387 Realtime Data Processing at Facebook 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011038963
1,607 Summingbird: A Framework for Integrating Batch and Online MapReduce Computations 2014 VLDB 0.00010307026
1,784 Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn 2017 VLDB 9.8443759e-05
1,822 S-Store: Streaming Meets Transaction Processing 2015 VLDB 9.771749e-05
2,236 Regular Path Query Evaluation on Streaming Graphs 2020 SIGMOD 8.9553775e-05
2,356 Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 8.7744892e-05
2,803 General Incremental Sliding-Window Aggregation 2015 VLDB 8.1681516e-05
2,868 SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics 2017 CIDR 8.0819785e-05
2,961 Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems 2018 VLDB 7.9686889e-05
3,000 SABER: Window-Based Hybrid Stream Processing for Heterogeneous Architectures 2016 SIGMOD 7.9260014e-05
3,053 S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications 2014 VLDB 7.8744661e-05
3,731 Husky: Towards a More Efficient and Expressive Distributed Computing Framework 2016 VLDB 7.225505e-05
3,778 Analyzing Efficient Stream Processing on Modern Hardware 2019 VLDB 7.1851487e-05
4,214 GraphJet: Real-Time Content Recommendations at Twitter 2016 VLDB 6.8905541e-05
4,289 Accelerating Dynamic Graph Analytics on GPUs 2018 VLDB 6.8514818e-05
4,646 Tornado: A System For Real-Time Iterative Analysis Over Evolving Data 2016 SIGMOD 6.6520921e-05
4,749 LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors 2020 SIGMOD 6.5984973e-05
5,552 Clonos: Consistent Causal Recovery for Highly-Available Streaming Dataflows 2021 SIGMOD 6.2374614e-05
5,630 SnappyData: A Hybrid Transactional Analytical Store Built On Spark 2016 SIGMOD 6.2063463e-05
5,927 Parallel Index-based Stream Join on a Multicore CPU 2020 SIGMOD 6.1006673e-05
5,958 Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge 2020 VLDB 6.0886149e-05
6,248 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 6.0022621e-05
6,255 Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation 2020 SIGMOD 6.0003158e-05
6,342 A Holistic View of Stream Partitioning Costs 2017 VLDB 5.9697897e-05
6,403 AStream: Ad-hoc Shared Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 5.952729e-05
6,629 Liquid: Unifying Nearline and Offline Big Data Integration 2015 CIDR 5.8773042e-05
7,161 Hazelcast Jet: Low-latency Stream Processing at the 99.99th Percentile 2021 VLDB 5.7442397e-05
7,544 Incremental Sliding Window Connectivity over Streaming Graphs 2024 VLDB 5.6560227e-05
7,687 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.6249337e-05
7,710 Parallelizing Intra-Window Join on Multicores: An Experimental Study 2021 SIGMOD 5.6204721e-05
7,729 AJoin: Ad-hoc Stream Joins at Scale 2020 VLDB 5.6161884e-05
8,068 Spur: Mitigating Slow Instances in Large-Scale Streaming Pipelines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5526491e-05
8,749 Stateful Entities: Object-oriented Cloud Applications as Distributed Dataflows 2023 CIDR 5.4367733e-05
8,784 Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows 2024 VLDB 5.4311509e-05
8,936 What's the Difference? Incremental Processing with Change Queries in Snowflake 2023 SIGMOD 5.4076395e-05
8,949 Enabling Signal Processing over Data Streams 2017 SIGMOD 5.4076395e-05
9,200 Elasticutor: Rapid Elasticity for Realtime Stateful Stream Processing 2019 SIGMOD 5.3688031e-05
9,299 MorphStream: Adaptive Scheduling for Scalable Transactional Stream Processing on Multicores 2023 SIGMOD 5.3504313e-05
9,328 Disaggregated State Management in Apache FlinkĀ® 2.0 2025 VLDB 5.3449422e-05
9,491 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 5.3246578e-05
9,496 Dhalion in Action: Automatic Management of Streaming Applications 2018 VLDB 5.3246578e-05
9,499 Supporting Scalable Analytics with Latency Constraints 2015 VLDB 5.3246578e-05
9,592 GeaFlow: A Graph Extended and Accelerated Dataflow System 2023 SIGMOD 5.3086438e-05
9,720 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.2849709e-05
9,790 Dalton: Learned Partitioning for Distributed Data Streams 2023 VLDB 5.2719963e-05
9,805 Railgun: managing large streaming windows under MAD requirements 2021 VLDB 5.2708329e-05
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