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Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned

Summary: iTuned automatically tunes database configuration parameters via adaptive sampling and planned experiments. Its cycle-stealing executor enables near-zero-overhead online tuning in production, while remaining portable across database systems and workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
10041
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00020651582
Overall Rank
347 | 97.63%
DOI
10.14778/1687627.1687767

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{duan_vldb09,
        title = {{Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned}},
        author = {Duan, Songyun and Thummala, Vamsidhar and Babu, Shivnath},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687767},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687767},
        year = {2009}
}

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86 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00035316107
234 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023810722
334 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00020875082
471 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0001793564
498 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00017440583
568 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.0001641553
798 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013919795
1,147 Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011974846
1,344 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011094717
1,686 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010008686
1,694 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 9.9953156e-05
2,298 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.7886538e-05
2,740 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.1855759e-05
3,116 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 7.7390737e-05
3,343 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.4983591e-05
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3,400 A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service 2018 VLDB 7.4433294e-05
3,586 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.2834069e-05
3,587 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2829345e-05
3,809 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 7.1074195e-05
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4,368 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.7393882e-05
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4,603 The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.6105578e-05
4,788 iTuned: A Tool for Configuring and Visualizing Database Parameters 2010 SIGMOD 6.5079219e-05
5,023 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.3979497e-05
5,073 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.3751266e-05
5,171 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.3347618e-05
5,226 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.3090383e-05
5,369 Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.2437078e-05
5,856 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.0644656e-05
5,865 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 6.0619534e-05
5,974 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 6.0230488e-05
6,344 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.9060457e-05
6,600 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.8250114e-05
6,921 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.7388557e-05
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7,757 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.5508469e-05
7,785 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.5450355e-05
8,323 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 5.4539294e-05
8,463 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.4205593e-05
8,656 PARAS: A Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining 2013 VLDB 5.3909781e-05
8,783 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 5.3740362e-05
9,739 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 5.227679e-05
9,898 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.1997534e-05
10,105 SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based OLTP Workload Compression 2025 VLDB 5.1435736e-05
10,253 HAMMER: An Automatic RAG Tuning System via Hierarchical Memory-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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