Time-adaptive sketches (Ada Sketches) for Summarizing Data Streams Shrivastava et al. SIGMOD 2016 More algorithm fun today, and again in the context of data streams. It’s the 3 V’s of big data, but not as you know it: Volume, Velocity, and Var… Volatility. Volatility here refers to changing patterns in the data over time, and ... Continue Reading

Range thresholding on streams Qiao et al. SIGMOD 2016 It’s another streaming paper today, also looking at how to efficiently handle a large volume of concurrent queries over a stream, and also claiming a significant performance breakthrough of several orders of magnitude. We’re looking at a different type of query though, known as a range ... Continue Reading

Sharing-aware outlier analytics over high-volume data streams Cao et al. SIGMOD 2016 With yesterday’s preliminaries on skyline queries out of the way, it’s time to turn our attention to the Sharing-aware Outlier Processing (SOP) algorithm of Cao et al. The challenge that SOP addresses is that of building a stream-based outlier detection system that can ... Continue Reading