The Case for a Signal-Oriented Data Stream Management System

Summary: Proposes a Signal-Oriented DSMS that makes signal segments first-class, unifying event-stream and signal-processing operators. Targets ease of UDFs, multi-million-sample/sec throughput on commodity PCs, and partitioned execution across PCs and sensor nodes. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hbb4af4d794b5d1f4
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 7.1790428e-05
Overall Rank: 3,595 | 75.84%
DOI: -
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Authors

1. Lewis Girod (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Yuan Mei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Ryan Newton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4. Stanislav Rost (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5. Arvind Thiagarajan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6. Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
7. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{girod_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{The Case for a Signal-Oriented Data Stream Management System}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Girod, Lewis and Mei, Yuan and Newton, Ryan and Rost, Stanislav and Thiagarajan, Arvind and Balakrishnan, Hari and Madden, Samuel},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,386	SPADE: The System S Declarative Stream Processing Engine	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010838275
5,017	Massive Scale-out of Expensive Continuous Queries	2011	VLDB	6.3114443e-05
6,177	PODS: A New Model and Processing Algorithms for Uncertain Data Streams	2010	SIGMOD	5.8582407e-05
6,595	MonetDB/DataCell: Online Analytics in a Streaming Column-Store	2012	VLDB	5.7393641e-05
6,850	Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing	2009	CIDR	5.6635511e-05
9,262	Enabling Signal Processing over Data Streams	2017	SIGMOD	5.2032182e-05
11,676	Raising the Level of Abstraction for Time-State Analytics With the Timeline Framework	2023	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
14,085	Performance Profiling with EndoScope, an Acquisitional Software Monitoring Framework	2008	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
109	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00032757423
112	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00032445088
152	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00028657752
171	Monitoring Streams – A New Class of Data Management Applications	2002	VLDB	0.00026999348
240	Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications	2003	SIGMOD	0.00023425462
622	Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences	1997	SIGMOD	0.00015485529
653	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015099306

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