The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing
Summary: Introduces the Dataflow Model for massive-scale, unbounded, out-of-order streams, treating results as perpetually evolving rather than eventually complete. Exposes principled tradeoffs among event-time correctness, latency, and cost via watermarks, triggers, and retractions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Tyler Akidau (Google)
- 2. Robert Bradshaw (Google)
- 3. Craig Chambers (Google)
- 4. Slava Chernyak (Google)
- 5. Rafael J. Fernández-Moctezuma (Google)
- 6. Reuven Lax (Google)
- 7. Sam McVeety (Google)
- 8. Daniel Mills (Google)
- 9. Frances Perry (Google)
- 10. Eric Schmidt (Google)
- 11. Sam Whittle (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@article{akidau_vldb15,
title = {{The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing}},
author = {Akidau, Tyler and Bradshaw, Robert and Chambers, Craig and Chernyak, Slava and Fernández-Moctezuma, Rafael J. and Lax, Reuven and McVeety, Sam and Mills, Daniel and Perry, Frances and Schmidt, Eric and Whittle, Sam},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
pages = {1792--1803},
doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824076},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824076},
year = {2015}
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