COLT: Continuous On-Line Database Tuning

Summary: COLT provides online self-tuning by monitoring workload and adaptively changing the physical configuration to boost query performance. It adapts index selection and tuning resources to workload patterns via profiling, demonstrated in PostgreSQL. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3827
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 5.8689388e-05
Overall Rank: 4,864 | 66.17%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,229	Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores	2009	SIGMOD	9.2350274e-05
2,367	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	8.9511058e-05
3,488	Optimal Column Layout for Hybrid Workloads	2019	VLDB	7.0479329e-05
4,506	Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2012	VLDB	6.1319277e-05
6,398	Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty	2022	VLDB	5.0819209e-05
6,456	From Auto-tuning One Size Fits All to Self-designed and Learned Data-intensive Systems	2019	SIGMOD	5.0564619e-05
10,849	AXE: A Task Decomposition Approach to Learned LSM Tuning	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
158	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00040071492
237	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00031726304
258	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.0003022091
516	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021196031
681	Materialized View Selection in a Multidimensional Database	1997	VLDB	0.00018203591
874	Index Selection in a Self-Adaptive Data Base Management System	1976	SIGMOD	0.00015728533
1,017	Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00014634307

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