Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine
Summary: Distributed Borealis stream processing (Aurora/Medusa heritage) emphasizing dynamic resource management, query optimization, and high availability. Demonstration uses a multiplayer game workload with visual performance monitoring to illustrate distributed operation and trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yanif Ahmad (Brown University)
- 2. Bradley Berg (Brown University)
- 3. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
- 4. Mark Humphrey (Brown University)
- 5. Jeong-Hyon Hwang (Brown University)
- 6. Anjali Jhingran (Brown University)
- 7. Anurag Maskey (Brandeis University)
- 8. Olga Papaemmanouil (Brown University)
- 9. Alexander Rasin (Brown University)
- 10. Nesime Tatbul (Brown University)
- 11. Wenjuan Xing (Brown University)
- 12. Ying Xing (Brown University)
- 13. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ahmad_sigmod05,
title = {{Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine}},
author = {Ahmad, Yanif and Berg, Bradley and Cetintemel, Ugur and Humphrey, Mark and Hwang, Jeong-Hyon and Jhingran, Anjali and Maskey, Anurag and Papaemmanouil, Olga and Rasin, Alexander and Tatbul, Nesime and Xing, Wenjuan and Xing, Ying and Zdonik, Stan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066274},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066274},
year = {2005}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,470 | Communication-Efficient Distributed Monitoring of Thresholded Counts | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00010560701 |
| 4,590 | Window-Aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams | 2006 | VLDB | 6.5139479e-05 |
| 7,431 | Streaming in a Connected World: Querying and Tracking Distributed Data Streams | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.5293382e-05 |
| 10,084 | ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems | 2023 | VLDB | 5.0830849e-05 |
| 10,195 | Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations | 2025 | VLDB | 5.0623376e-05 |
| 11,691 | Applications of Sketching and Pathways to Impact | 2023 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,401 | CE-Storm: Confidential Elastic Processing of Data Streams | 2015 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00030427614 |
| 510 | TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00017065714 |
| 594 | Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00015823573 |
| 676 | Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00014853749 |
| 1,946 | Aurora: A Data Stream Management System | 2003 | SIGMOD | 9.3249193e-05 |
| 2,500 | Operator Scheduling in a Data Stream Manager | 2003 | VLDB | 8.3809217e-05 |
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