Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD
Summary: Blueprint planning: project cloud data-infrastructure design decisions into a unified design space and cost-based search that uses learned models to predict blueprint utility. BRAD implements this virtualization, exposing one SQL interface that auto-selects engines, provisions resources, and adapts to workloads, achieving 1.6–13× cost savings while meeting performance targets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Geoffrey X. Yu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Ziniu Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Ferdi Kossmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Tianyu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Markos Markakis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 6. Amadou Ngom (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 7. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 8. Tim Kraska (Amazon; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{yu_vldb24,
title = {{Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD}},
author = {Yu, Geoffrey X. and Wu, Ziniu and Kossmann, Ferdi and Li, Tianyu and Markakis, Markos and Ngom, Amadou and Madden, Samuel and Kraska, Tim},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {11},
pages = {3629--3643},
doi = {10.14778/3681954.3682026},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3682026},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 8,572 | T3: Accurate and Fast Performance Prediction for Relational Database Systems With Compiled Decision Trees | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.4102362e-05 |
| 10,501 | SQLBarber: A System Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Customized and Realistic SQL Workloads | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,553 | AQD: Online Adaptive Query Dispatcher for HTAP Databases | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,742 | Virtualizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,969 | Improving DBMS Scheduling Decisions with Accurate Performance Prediction on Concurrent Queries | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,076 | CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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