1. Introduction

2. Scope, Types of State, and Related Work  
2.1 Scope  
2.2 Types of State  
2.3 Related Work  

3. Concepts of State Management  
3.1 Operations  
3.4 Load Balancing and Elasticity  
3.5 Performance  

4. Applications of State  
4.1 Stateful Computation  
4.2 Iterative Processing  

5. Integrative Optimization  

6. Implementations of State and Limitations  

7. Open Discussions  
7.1 Integrating State Management into Big Data Frameworks  
7.2 Enabling State Management for Iterative Algorithm Based Applications  
7.3 Using State Management for Hybrid Systems  
7.4 Evaluating State Management Methods  

8. Conclusion