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Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning

Summary: Automated DBMS tuning via large-scale ML (OtterTune) to select impactful knobs, map unseen workloads to known ones, and recommend settings. Evaluated on three DBMSs; achieves configurations as good as or better than existing tools or human experts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5406
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00036859633
Overall Rank
183 | 98.74%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064029

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160 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00040053897
208 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00034478612
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283 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00029024583
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423 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00023628474
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760 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00017003914
886 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015563003
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