Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation

Summary: Comprehensive evaluation of DB configuration tuning methods across modules, showing hyper-parameter optimization can boost tuning performance. Proposes an efficient surrogate-based unified benchmark to minimize evaluation cost and identify best algorithms per module. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12681
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 6.7373184e-05
Overall Rank: 3,812 | 73.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3538598.3538604

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4,380	LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning	2022	VLDB	6.2396606e-05
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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
340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
424	Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned	2009	VLDB	0.00023616398
514	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.0002124895
661	Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005	2004	VLDB	0.00018481174
663	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00018469455
716	Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00017723171
782	QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	VLDB	0.00016729063
846	Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering	2002	VLDB	0.00015997985
1,827	An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	0.00010390548
1,902	Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010157713
2,839	VolcanoML: Speeding up End-to-End AutoML via Scalable Search Space Decomposition	2021	VLDB	8.0378978e-05
3,269	iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases	2019	VLDB	7.2998062e-05
3,522	ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases	2021	SIGMOD	7.0096727e-05
3,538	Database Tuning: principles, experiments, and troubleshooting techniques	2002	SIGMOD	6.995825e-05
4,240	Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation	2021	VLDB	6.3318228e-05
4,265	CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions	2021	VLDB	6.3097793e-05
4,842	Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases	2022	SIGMOD	5.8826802e-05
6,520	Foundations of Automated Database Tuning	2006	VLDB	5.0307595e-05
7,862	Database Tuning	1992	VLDB	4.6330193e-05

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