Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads

Summary: Automatic VM configuration for multi-DBMS workloads on pooled hardware. A workload-aware advisor tunes VM resources; runtime feedback refines choices via a whatif queryoptimizer; implemented for PostgreSQL and DB2, evaluated on DSS/OLTP. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4107
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00013543212
Overall Rank: 861 | 94.10%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376711

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ahmed A. Soror (University of Waterloo)
2. Umar Farooq Minhas (University of Waterloo)
3. Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo)
4. Peter Kokosielis (IBM)
5. Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo)
6. Sunil Kamath (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{soror_sigmod08,
        title = {{Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads}},
        author = {Soror, Ahmed A. and Minhas, Umar Farooq and Salem, Kenneth and Kokosielis, Peter and Aboulnaga, Ashraf and Kamath, Sunil},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376711},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376711},
        year = {2008}
}

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86	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00035316107
234	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00023810722
347	Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned	2009	VLDB	0.00020651582
584	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00016139925
641	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00015400863
741	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014442062
1,092	Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012221946
3,783	MISO: Souping Up Big Data Query Processing with a Multistore System	2014	SIGMOD	7.1298683e-05
4,096	Parallel Analytics as a Service	2013	SIGMOD	6.9057396e-05
4,868	RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems	2011	VLDB	6.4713322e-05
4,997	Secure Query Processing with Data Interoperability in a Cloud Database Environment	2014	SIGMOD	6.4080849e-05
7,049	MgCrab: Transaction Crabbing for Live Migration in Deterministic Database Systems	2019	VLDB	5.7177768e-05
7,525	Towards Cost-Effective Storage Provisioning for DBMSs	2012	VLDB	5.6029996e-05
8,910	Vertically Autoscaling Monolithic Applications with CaaSPER: Scalable Container-as-a-Service Performance Enhanced Resizing Algorithm for the Cloud	2024	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
10,107	Re-evaluating Designs for Multi-Tenant OLTP Workloads on SSD-based I/O Subsystems	2014	SIGMOD	5.1435736e-05
12,106	Thrifty: Offering Parallel Database as a Service using the Shared-Process Approach	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
523	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017133451
625	Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle	2005	CIDR	0.0001566968
781	Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering	2002	VLDB	0.00014085674
2,337	Multi-dimensional Resource Scheduling for Parallel Queries	1996	SIGMOD	8.7267117e-05
2,360	Dynamic Memory Allocation for Multiple-Query Workloads	1993	VLDB	8.6956893e-05
2,819	Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling	1989	VLDB	8.0922349e-05
4,462	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.6883778e-05
4,731	Automated and On-Demand Provisioning of Virtual Machines for Database Applications	2007	SIGMOD	6.5346682e-05

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