The Case for NLP-Enhanced Database Tuning: Towards Tuning Tools that "Read the Manual"

Summary: NLP-driven database tuning that reads manuals and literature to guide automated configuration. A prototype mines tuning hints from web documents and shows improved MySQL/PostgreSQL performance on TPC-H vs default settings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12306
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.484683e-05
Overall Rank: 8,615 | 40.07%
DOI: 10.14778/3450980.3450984

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Authors

1. Immanuel Trummer

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1,407	DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual"	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012146739
3,995	How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management	2023	VLDB	6.5513237e-05
5,509	Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?	2023	VLDB	5.4703368e-05
8,458	Demonstrating DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads" the Manual	2022	SIGMOD	4.5066722e-05
9,605	Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System	2022	VLDB	4.3177432e-05

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1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
71	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	0.00059038975
183	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00036721403
204	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	0.00034784455
224	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00032746205
333	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	0.00027206884
359	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.0002592783
514	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.0002124895
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020727678
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
782	QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	VLDB	0.00016729063
1,737	QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010720294
1,911	Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment	1997	VLDB	0.00010120234
2,219	SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	9.2623533e-05
3,142	Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems	2020	SIGMOD	7.4815444e-05
4,194	On the Complexity of Approximate Query Optimization	2002	PODS	6.3697822e-05
4,700	Schedule Optimization for Data Processing Flows on the Cloud	2011	SIGMOD	5.9882572e-05

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