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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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9,952 Distributed Stream KNN Join 2021 SIGMOD 5.226858e-05
10,043 Accelerating Stream Processing Engines via Hardware Offloading 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,421 Oceanus: Enable SLO-Aware Vertical Autoscaling for Cloud-Native Streaming Services in Tencent 2025 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,427 Streaming Democratized: Ease Across the Latency Spectrum with Delayed View Semantics and Snowflake Dynamic Tables 2025 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,866 How Reliable Are Streams? End-to-End Processing-Guarantee Validation and Performance Benchmarking of Stream Processing Systems 2025 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
10,965 Fault Tolerance Placement in the Internet of Things 2024 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,157 Templating Shuffles 2023 CIDR 5.1725247e-05
11,196 A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation 2023 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,438 Synchronization Schemas 2021 PODS 5.1725247e-05
11,471 Klink: Progress-Aware Scheduling for Streaming Data Systems 2021 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,607 Demand-based Sensor Data Gathering with Multi-Query Optimization 2020 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,629 InvaliDB: Scalable Push-Based Real-Time Queries on Top of Pull-Based Databases (Extended) 2020 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,678 Online Template Induction for Machine-Generated Emails 2019 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,715 Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter 2018 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,734 Challenges and Experiences in Building an Efficient Apache Beam Runner For IBM Streams 2018 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,782 Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data 2017 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,805 Runtime Optimization of Join Location in Parallel Data Management Systems 2017 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,810 Query-able Kafka: An agile data analytics pipeline for mobile wireless networks 2017 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,854 Real-time Video Recommendation Exploration 2016 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,857 The Challenges of Global-scale Data Management 2016 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,867 dmapply: A functional primitive to express distributed machine learning algorithms in R 2016 VLDB 5.1725247e-05
11,917 CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams 2015 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
11,936 CANDS: Continuous Optimal Navigation via Distributed Stream Processing 2015 VLDB 5.1725247e-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
96 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.00034875224
124 The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine 2005 CIDR 0.00031245505
222 MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale 2013 VLDB 0.00024389768
1,150 Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012042292
1,258 Querying and Mining Data Streams: You Only Get One Look 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011537422
1,690 Towards a Streaming SQL Standard 2008 VLDB 0.00010091848
2,771 Continuous Queries in Oracle 2007 VLDB 8.20918e-05
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