Lecture 18. Stream processing

Readings:

• Daniel J. Abadi, Don Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Mitch Cherniack, Christian Convey, Sangdon Lee, Michael Stonebraker, Nesime Tatbul, and Stan Zdonik. Aurora: a new model and architecture for data stream management.. VLDB Journal 12(2): 120-139, August 2003. [pdf].

As you read this paper, consider the following questions:

• What is the motivation for building a data stream management system such as Aurora?
• How is the Aurora query algebra similar to the relational algebra? How is it different?
• What are some other features that distinguish Aurora from an RDBMS?

Lecture notes:

lecture18.pdf