Temporal Aggregation of Spanning Event Stream: A General Framework.

The Big Data era requires new processing architectures among which the stream systems that have become very popular. Those systems are able to summarize infinite data streams with aggregates on the most recent data. However, up to now, only point events have been considered and spanning events, which come with a duration, have been let aside, restricted to the persistent databases world only. In this paper, we propose an unified framework to deal with such stream mechanisms on spanning events. To this end, we formally define a spanning event stream with new stream semantics and events properties. We then review and extend usual stream windows to meet the new spanning events requirements. Eventually, we validate the soundness of our new framework with a set of experiments, based on a straightforward implementation, showing that aggregation of spanning event stream is providing as much new insights on the data as effectiveness in several use cases.