Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems

Summary: Survey of parameter tuning for databases, Hadoop, and Spark, with six approaches: rule-based, cost modeling, simulation, experiment-driven, ML, adaptive tuning. Outlines foundations, pros/cons, cloud, and challenges in heterogeneity and real-time analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11915
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.1294788e-05
Overall Rank: 6,265 | 56.46%
DOI: 10.14778/3352063.3352112

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7,291	Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities	2022	SIGMOD	4.7677422e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
42	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00073570328
183	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00036859633
423	Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned	2009	VLDB	0.00023628474
661	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00018488168
760	Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle	2005	CIDR	0.00017003914
866	Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs	2011	VLDB	0.00015771189
1,048	Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics	2011	CIDR	0.00014442178
1,615	The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study	2010	VLDB	0.00011137225
3,905	A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service	2018	VLDB	6.6430079e-05
6,429	Self-Managing Technology in Database Management Systems	2004	VLDB	5.0595863e-05
6,494	Foundations of Automated Database Tuning	2006	VLDB	5.0334983e-05
7,298	MRTuner: A Toolkit to Enable Holistic Optimization for MapReduce Jobs	2014	VLDB	4.7651301e-05
9,064	Tempo: Robust and Self-Tuning Resource Management in Multi-tenant Parallel Databases	2016	VLDB	4.3994049e-05

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