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Watermarking
A mechanism in stream systems that defines a tolerance boundary for time progression in order to manage late-arriving events.
Watermarking is used in streaming systems to finalize computations without waiting forever for late events. The system defines a point beyond which incoming events are considered too late. This mechanism creates an engineering balance between real-time output and historical correctness. In window-based stream analytics, producing consistent results is difficult without watermarking.
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