Distributed operation in the Borealis stream processing engine

Borealis is a distributed stream processing engine that is being developed at Brandeis University, Brown University, and MIT. Borealis inherits core stream processing functionality from Aurora and inter-node communication functionality from Medusa. We propose to demonstrate some of the key aspects of distributed operation in Borealis, using a multi-player network game as the underlying application. The demonstration will illustrate the dynamic resource management, query optimization and high availability mechanisms employed by Borealis, using visual performance-monitoring tools as well as the gaming experience.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Yanif Ahmad, Bradley Berg, Ugur Çetintemel, Mark Humphrey, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Anjali Jhingran, Anurag Maskey, Olga Papaemmanouil, Alex Rasin, Nesime Tatbul, Wenjuan Xing, Ying Xing, Stanley B. Zdonik
• Keywords: Borealis Inherits Core, Database, Distributed Stream Processing, SIGMOD 2005, Stream Processing Functionality