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)
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Authors
- 1. Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan (Google)
- 2. Venkatesh Basker (Google)
- 3. Sumit Das (Google)
- 4. Ashish Gupta (Google)
- 5. Haifeng Jiang (Google)
- 6. Tianhao Qiu (Google)
- 7. Alexey Reznichenko (Max Planck Institute)
- 8. Deomid Ryabkov (Google)
- 9. Manpreet Singh (Google)
- 10. Shivakumar Venkataraman (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ananthanarayanan_sigmod13,
title = {{Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams}},
author = {Ananthanarayanan, Rajagopal and Basker, Venkatesh and Das, Sumit and Gupta, Ashish and Jiang, Haifeng and Qiu, Tianhao and Reznichenko, Alexey and Ryabkov, Deomid and Singh, Manpreet and Venkataraman, Shivakumar},
series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465272},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465272},
year = {2013}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00030427614 |
| 139 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00029480065 |
| 799 | A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013889081 |
| 852 | Streaming Queries over Streaming Data | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00013451343 |
| 1,270 | Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00011257324 |
| 1,387 | How Soccer Players Would do Stream Joins | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00010825457 |
| 1,431 | Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00010681774 |
| 2,696 | Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor | 2007 | VLDB | 8.1205649e-05 |
| 3,352 | Database Tuning: principles, experiments, and troubleshooting techniques | 2002 | SIGMOD | 7.3904295e-05 |
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