Process And Dataflow Control In Distributed Data-Intensive Systems

Summary: Dataflow ops execute where the declustered base data reside, causing inter-node transfers under runtime uncertainty of active nodes. Presents a unified mechanism for loading, activation/termination, transfer control, and commit/abort, with comparisons. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h5ec36a703419a734
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 8.2147877e-05
Overall Rank: 2,621 | 82.38%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50212

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Authors

1. William Alexander (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. George Copeland (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{alexander_sigmod88,
        title = {{Process And Dataflow Control In Distributed Data-Intensive Systems}},
        author = {Alexander, William and Copeland, George},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50212},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50212},
        year = {1988}
}

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93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034622929
191	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025700375
1,288	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00011183651
4,384	Reordering Query Execution in Tertiary Memory Databases	1996	VLDB	6.6259414e-05
8,149	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	5.3901454e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023947656
54	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00040499302
340	THE 5 MINUTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR DISC ACCESSES and THE 10 BYTE RULE FOR TRADING MEMORY FOR CPU TIME	1987	SIGMOD	0.00020539958

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