Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter

Summary: TSAR delivers robust, scalable real-time event time-series aggregation for Twitter engagement across facets. Built on Summingbird, it unifies batch and streaming processing and automates ingestion-to-publication, with dashboards and ad-hoc analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h1ffbaec2e7c28811
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 12,213 | 17.89%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3190663

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Authors

1. Peilin Yang (Twitter)
2. Srikanth Thiagarajan (Twitter)
3. Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yang_sigmod18,
        title = {{Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter}},
        author = {Yang, Peilin and Thiagarajan, Srikanth and Lin, Jimmy},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3190663},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3190663},
        year = {2018}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00076195956
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071084324
214	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00024656893
218	MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale	2013	VLDB	0.00024390324
231	Storm @Twitter	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023841089
325	The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing	2015	VLDB	0.00020964941
606	Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015635133
1,068	Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes	1997	VLDB	0.00012185465
1,286	Resource Sharing in Continuous Sliding-Window Aggregates	2004	VLDB	0.0001119284
1,383	On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010847646
1,633	Summingbird: A Framework for Integrating Batch and Online MapReduce Computations	2014	VLDB	0.00010019617
2,739	General Incremental Sliding-Window Aggregation	2015	VLDB	8.0721161e-05
4,177	GraphJet: Real-Time Content Recommendations at Twitter	2016	VLDB	6.757191e-05
4,249	The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter	2012	VLDB	6.7037533e-05
7,307	Immutability Changes Everything	2015	CIDR	5.5581323e-05

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