Sliding Windows

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Describe the problem you are trying to solve

Sliding windows can be used in various usecases and would compliment the current tumbling windows.

Describe the solution you'd like

TBD via a RFC

Notes

This needs an RFC.

Resources Collection of resources:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/approximate-counts-and-quantiles-over-sliding-windows/
• https://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/sites/default/files/SIMDWindowPaper_ADMS%2718.pdf
• http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/encyc18-sliding-window.pdf
• https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~suri/psdir/ency.pdf
• https://people.ac.upc.edu/pbarlet/reports/techrep_countdown_vector.pdf (related, specialisation)

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Adding a note here that with the alerting use case this starts to become quite relevant.