Automated and On-Demand Provisioning of Virtual Machines for Database Applications
Summary: Automated on-demand VM provisioning for database apps on utility infrastructure via Shirako. NIMO uses online active learning to build performance models and guide SLA-aware VM leasing, demonstrated for multi-tier web services and scientific workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Piyush Shivam (Duke University)
- 2. Azbayar Demberel (Duke University)
- 3. Pradeep Gunda (Duke University)
- 4. David Irwin (Duke University)
- 5. Laura Grit (Duke University)
- 6. Aydan Yumerefendi (Duke University)
- 7. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)
- 8. Jeff Chase (Duke University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{shivam_sigmod07,
title = {{Automated and On-Demand Provisioning of Virtual Machines for Database Applications}},
author = {Shivam, Piyush and Demberel, Azbayar and Gunda, Pradeep and Irwin, David and Grit, Laura and Yumerefendi, Aydan and Babu, Shivnath and Chase, Jeff},
series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247612},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247612},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 861 | Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00013543212 |
| 1,092 | Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00012221946 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,503 | Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications | 2006 | VLDB | 5.8598189e-05 |
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