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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.
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Paper ID
5133
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
6.3103741e-05
Overall Rank
5,222 | 64.18%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2749454
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{mozafari_sigmod15,
title = {{CliffGuard: A Principled Framework for Finding Robust Database Designs}},
author = {Mozafari, Barzan and Goh, Eugene Zhen Ye and Yoon, Dong Young},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2749454},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2749454},
year = {2015}
}
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