The Holon Approach for Simultaneously Tuning Multiple Components in a Self-Driving Database Management System with Machine Learning via Synthesized Proto-Actions

Summary: Proto-X (Holon) jointly tunes multiple DBMS configuration spaces by embedding cross-space similarities into a high-dimensional model and synthesizing “proto-actions” to navigate the combined space, avoiding tuner coordination/local optima. Outperforms sequential tuners, improving PostgreSQL up to 53%. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13549
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.6040862e-05
Overall Rank: 8,020 | 44.21%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3682007

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