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The Dataflow Model Revisited Or: That Feeling When You Realize Every Problem You've Been Solving Is a Database Problem

Summary: A Test-of-Time reassessment finds event time, incompleteness, and strong consistency enduring, but window/trigger-centric semantics misguided. It reframes streaming as database maintenance over streams/tables, with SQL, incremental views, and freshness contracts simplifying analytics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)

Paper ID
h1e9bab0a3d6cdcab
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank
11,045 | 25.77%
DOI
10.14778/3827998.3838710
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@article{akidau_vldb26,
        title = {{The Dataflow Model Revisited Or: That Feeling When You Realize Every Problem You've Been Solving Is a Database Problem}},
        author = {Akidau, Tyler and Fernández-Moctezuma, Rafael J. and Lax, Reuven and Mills, Daniel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4953--4964},
        doi = {10.14778/3827998.3838710},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3838710},
        year = {2026}
}

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62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039040346
112 TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World 2003 CIDR 0.00032445088
127 The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine 2005 CIDR 0.00030414379
218 MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale 2013 VLDB 0.00024379041
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
340 A Taxonomy of Time in Databases 1985 SIGMOD 0.00020560889
408 DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views 2012 VLDB 0.00018894165
442 Differential dataflow 2013 CIDR 0.00018201988
685 Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics 2015 VLDB 0.00014778299
895 Consistent Streaming Through Time: A Vision for Event Stream Processing 2007 CIDR 0.00013204961
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
1,303 Realtime Data Processing at Facebook 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011101274
1,674 Semantics and Evaluation Techniques for Window Aggregates in Data Streams 2005 SIGMOD 9.9177225e-05
1,771 Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn 2017 VLDB 9.6757926e-05
2,740 General Incremental Sliding-Window Aggregation 2015 VLDB 8.0682988e-05
3,675 DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages 2023 VLDB 7.1058941e-05
4,100 On-the-fly Progress Detection in Iterative Stream Queries 2009 VLDB 6.8057916e-05
4,402 Shared Arrangements: practical inter-query sharing for streaming dataflows 2020 VLDB 6.6120647e-05
4,874 Efficient Snapshot Differential Algorithms for Data Warehousing 1996 VLDB 6.3701734e-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
6,626 Watermarks in Stream Processing Systems: Semantics and Comparative Analysis of Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow 2021 VLDB 5.7288333e-05
7,078 Inter-Operator Feedback in Data Stream Management Systems via Punctuation 2009 CIDR 5.6034503e-05
7,270 What's the Difference? Incremental Processing with Change Queries in Snowflake 2023 SIGMOD 5.5671818e-05
9,236 Streaming Democratized: Ease Across the Latency Spectrum with Delayed View Semantics and Snowflake Dynamic Tables 2025 SIGMOD 5.2032182e-05
10,001 Enzyme Demo: Incremental View Maintenance for Data Engineering 2026 VLDB 5.0954911e-05
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