Load Management and High Availability in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing Engine

  • Authors:
  • Nesime Tatbul;Yanif Ahmad;Uğur Çetintemel;Jeong-Hyon Hwang;Ying Xing;Stan Zdonik

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, USA;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, USA;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, USA;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, USA;Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, USA

  • Venue:
  • GeoSensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Borealis is a distributed stream processing engine that has been developed at Brandeis University, Brown University, and MIT. It extends the first generation of data stream processing systems with advanced capabilities such as distributed operation, scalability with time-varying load, high availability against failures, and dynamic data and query modifications. In this paper, we focus on aspects that are related to load management and high availability in Borealis. We describe our algorithms for balanced and resilient load distribution, scalable distributed load shedding, and cooperative and self-configuring high availability. We also present experimental results from our prototype implementation showing the effectiveness of these algorithms.