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Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams

Summary: Presents a formal evaluation model and principled framework for stream pattern matching, transcending regex-like languages. It analyzes runtime complexity and adds sharing-based storage/compute optimizations, with experiments showing gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf3ea55d70cd88ae0
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0001607809
Overall Rank
580 | 96.11%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376634

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod08,
        title = {{Efficient Pattern Matching over Event Streams}},
        author = {Agrawal, Jagrati and Diao, Yanlei and Gyllstrom, Daniel and Immerman, Neil},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376634},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376634},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,029 ZStream: A Cost-based Query Processor for Adaptively Detecting Composite Events 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012411098
1,034 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012389548
3,400 High-Performance Dynamic Pattern Matching over Disordered Streams 2010 VLDB 7.330164e-05
3,410 Scalable Pattern Sharing on Event Streams 2016 SIGMOD 7.322416e-05
3,828 Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs 2010 VLDB 6.994666e-05
4,024 Real-Time Multi-Pattern Detection over Event Streams 2019 SIGMOD 6.8444194e-05
4,100 On-the-fly Progress Detection in Iterative Stream Queries 2009 VLDB 6.8057916e-05
4,585 Event Pattern Matching over Graph Streams 2015 VLDB 6.5156965e-05
4,623 Join Query Optimization Techniques for Complex Event Processing Applications 2018 VLDB 6.4957114e-05
5,147 Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities Under Updates 2018 VLDB 6.2536517e-05
5,226 To Share, or not to Share Online Event Trend Aggregation Over Bursty Event Streams 2021 SIGMOD 6.2184852e-05
5,454 High-Performance Row Pattern Recognition Using Joins 2023 VLDB 6.1225019e-05
5,896 Recognizing Patterns in Streams with Imprecise Timestamps 2010 VLDB 5.9529446e-05
6,194 DARLING: Data-Aware Load Shedding in Complex Event Processing Systems 2022 VLDB 5.8534955e-05
6,308 GRETA: Graph-based Real-time Event Trend Aggregation 2018 VLDB 5.8156439e-05
6,335 Complete Event Trend Detection in High-Rate Event Streams 2017 SIGMOD 5.8089072e-05
6,677 Index-Accelerated Pattern Matching in Event Stores 2021 SIGMOD 5.7105065e-05
6,884 Gloria: Graph-based Sharing Optimizer for Event Trend Aggregation 2022 SIGMOD 5.6548869e-05
7,027 Real-time Distributed Co-Movement Pattern Detection on Streaming Trajectories 2019 VLDB 5.6154042e-05
7,251 Efficient Adaptive Detection of Complex Event Patterns 2018 VLDB 5.5719214e-05
7,395 On the Complexity of Privacy-Preserving Complex Event Processing 2011 PODS 5.5345986e-05
7,724 CORE: a Complex Event Recognition Engine 2022 VLDB 5.4657408e-05
7,780 DBToaster: Agile Views in a Dynamic Data Management System 2011 CIDR 5.4528185e-05
8,496 Event Trend Aggregation Under Rich Event Matching Semantics 2019 SIGMOD 5.3291711e-05
8,511 History is a mirror to the future: Best-effort approximate complex event matching with insufficient resources 2017 VLDB 5.3262778e-05
8,546 Why Not Match: On Explanations of Event Pattern Queries 2021 SIGMOD 5.3174951e-05
8,875 T-ReX: Optimizing Pattern Search on Time Series 2023 SIGMOD 5.2592262e-05
8,907 HYPERSONIC: A Hybrid Parallelization Approach for Scalable Complex Event Processing 2022 SIGMOD 5.2534908e-05
9,001 DLACEP: A Deep-Learning Based Framework for Approximate Complex Event Processing 2022 SIGMOD 5.2395139e-05
9,428 EIRES: Efficient Integration of Remote Data in Event Stream Processing 2021 SIGMOD 5.1778854e-05
9,744 MuSE Graphs for Flexible Distribution of Event Stream Processing in Networks 2021 SIGMOD 5.1325223e-05
9,814 INEv: In-Network Evaluation for Event Stream Processing 2023 SIGMOD 5.1233734e-05
9,949 Complex Event Analytics: Online Aggregation of Stream Sequence Patterns 2014 SIGMOD 5.1037398e-05
10,507 ReStore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Data Migration in Multi-Tiered Storage 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,603 Regular Expression Indexing for Log Analysis 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,093 Complex Event Recognition under Time Constraints: Towards a Formal Framework for Efficient Query Evaluation 2025 PODS 4.9769913e-05
11,206 SuSe: Summary Selection for Regular Expression Subsequence Aggregation over Streams 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,219 Scalable Complex Event Processing on Video Streams 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,522 DecoPa: Query Decomposition for Parallel Complex Event Processing 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,599 Complex Event Recognition with Symbolic Register Transducers 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,103 Data Stream Event Prediction Based on Timing Knowledge and State Transitions 2020 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,341 FERARI: A Prototype for Complex Event Processing over Streaming Multi-cloud Platforms 2016 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,380 Cleaning Timestamps with Temporal Constraints 2016 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,537 E-Matching: Event Processing over Noisy Sequences in Real Time 2013 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,549 Utility-Maximizing Event Stream Suppression 2013 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,698 Distributed Inference and Query Processing for RFID Tracking and Monitoring 2011 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
67 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00037991902
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
241 High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams 2006 SIGMOD 0.00023408695
451 Filtering Algorithms and Implementation for Very Fast Publish/Subscribe Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018017347
612 Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation 1992 VLDB 0.00015566625
639 Composite Events for Active Databases: Semantics, Contexts and Detection 1994 VLDB 0.00015290324
653 The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System 1996 VLDB 0.00015099306
755 Cayuga: A General Purpose Event Monitoring System 2007 CIDR 0.00014226048
895 Consistent Streaming Through Time: A Vision for Event Stream Processing 2007 CIDR 0.00013204961
1,101 Scalable Distributed Stream Processing 2003 CIDR 0.00011999722
2,042 Temporal Management of RFID Data 2005 VLDB 9.1387661e-05
3,992 What is "Next" in Event Processing? 2007 PODS 6.8653232e-05
4,879 Events on the Edge 2005 SIGMOD 6.3692634e-05
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