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Window-Based Query Processing

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Stream query processing

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Data streams are infinite in nature. As a result, a query that executes over data streams specifies a “window” of focus or the part of the data stream that is of interest to the query. When new data items arrive into the data stream, the window may either expand or slide to allow the query to process these new data items. Hence, queries over data streams are continuous in nature, i.e., the query is continuously reevaluated each time the query window slides. Window-based query processing on data streams refers to the various ways and techniques for processing and evaluating continuous queries over windows of data stream items.

Historical Background

Windows over relational tables have already been introduced into standard SQL (SQL:1999) in order to support data analysis, decision support, and, more generally, OLAP-type operations.

However, the motivation for having windows in data stream management systems is quite different. Since data streams...

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Walid G. Aref

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Ugur Cetintemel

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Aref, W.G. (2018). Window-Based Query Processing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_468

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