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Beyond Analytics: The Evolution of Stream Processing Systems

Summary: Survey of stream processing evolution, noting overlooked findings and the shift from analytics-centric systems to modern, event-driven platforms. Contemporary streams enable scalable apps, reshaping architecture and data-management design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h1865bbf2d00aca2f
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.8275729e-05
Overall Rank
6,270 | 57.86%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3383131

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{carbone_sigmod20,
        title = {{Beyond Analytics: The Evolution of Stream Processing Systems}},
        author = {Carbone, Paris and Fragkoulis, Marios and Kalavri, Vasiliki and Katsifodimos, Asterios},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3383131},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3383131},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
4,867 Clonos: Consistent Causal Recovery for Highly-Available Streaming Dataflows 2021 SIGMOD 6.3723904e-05
8,630 D3-GNN: Dynamic Distributed Dataflow for Streaming Graph Neural Networks 2024 VLDB 5.298422e-05
9,656 Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink 2.0 2025 VLDB 5.142891e-05
10,871 Fugue: Online Elasticity for Distributed Stateful Stream Processing 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,462 IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,761 Fries: Fast and Consistent Runtime Reconfiguration in Dataflow Systems with Transactional Guarantees 2023 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
25 NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases 2000 SIGMOD 0.00053906051
218 MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale 2013 VLDB 0.00024379041
240 Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications 2003 SIGMOD 0.00023425462
325 The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing 2015 VLDB 0.0002095522
369 Continuous Queries over Append-Only Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.0001984577
430 Flexible Time Management in Data Stream Systems 2004 PODS 0.00018431194
511 TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00017058115
546 Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates 2018 SIGMOD 0.00016584272
677 Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager 2003 VLDB 0.0001484703
895 Consistent Streaming Through Time: A Vision for Event Stream Processing 2007 CIDR 0.00013204961
970 Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012776109
1,123 Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011926683
1,198 Out-of-Order Processing: A New Architecture for High-Performance Stream Systems 2008 VLDB 0.00011561138
1,236 Dhalion: Self-Regulating Stream Processing in Heron 2017 VLDB 0.00011400483
1,286 Resource Sharing in Continuous Sliding-Window Aggregates 2004 VLDB 0.00011188038
1,402 State Management in Apache Flink: Consistent Stateful Distributed Stream Processing 2017 VLDB 0.00010766851
1,751 Towards a Streaming SQL Standard 2008 VLDB 9.7266159e-05
1,771 Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn 2017 VLDB 9.6757926e-05
1,939 S-Store: Streaming Meets Transaction Processing 2015 VLDB 9.3299482e-05
3,108 SABER: Window-Based Hybrid Stream Processing for Heterogeneous Architectures 2016 SIGMOD 7.6392673e-05
3,160 S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications 2014 VLDB 7.5773134e-05
3,252 SECRET: A Model for Analysis of the Execution Semantics of Stream Processing Systems 2010 VLDB 7.4897106e-05
3,398 Megaphone: Latency-conscious state migration for distributed streaming dataflows 2019 VLDB 7.3318754e-05
4,886 One SQL to Rule Them All – an Efficient and Syntactically Idiomatic Approach to Management of Streams and Tables 2019 SIGMOD 6.3680255e-05
5,093 Stateful Functions as a Service in Action 2019 VLDB 6.2767846e-05
5,355 A.M.B.R.O.S.I.A: Providing Performant Virtual Resiliency for Distributed Applications 2020 VLDB 6.1654859e-05
10,050 Event Processing - past, present and future 2010 VLDB 5.08906e-05
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