LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning

Summary: LlamaTune uses domain knowledge to boost DBMS tuning. Randomized projections shrink dimensions; biased sampling handles knob values; bucketization reduces space; up to 11x fewer runs and 21% higher throughput, generalizing across BO/RL and DBMS versions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12779
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 6.3725334e-05
Overall Rank: 4,180 | 70.95%
DOI: 10.14778/3551793.3551844

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339	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026895683
423	Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned	2009	VLDB	0.00023628474
510	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.00021420477
661	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00018488168
779	QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	VLDB	0.00016719473
1,816	An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	0.00010438512
3,655	Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation	2022	VLDB	6.8723042e-05
3,995	ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases	2021	SIGMOD	6.5475871e-05
4,216	Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation	2021	VLDB	6.3448176e-05
4,235	CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions	2021	VLDB	6.3297728e-05
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