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CliffGuard: A Principled Framework for Finding Robust Database Designs
Summary: CliffGuard applies robust optimization to select physical designs (indices, materialized views) under workload uncertainty. Users set risk tolerance to trade nominal optimality for robustness, yielding predictable performance amid workload shifts.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5072
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2015
- Pagerank
- 5.4231783e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,578 | 61.24%
- DOI
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10.1145/2723372.2749454
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