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A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service

Summary: OtterTune automatic DBMS knob tuning service leverages historical tuning data and ML models to predict effective configurations. In a demonstration, OtterTune automatically selects configurations that improve DBMS performance, rivaling or beating human experts and existing tools. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11672
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
6.6339644e-05
Overall Rank
3,914 | 72.78%
DOI
10.14778/3229863.3236222

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183 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036721403
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