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An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Summary: CDBTune: end-to-end automatic cloud DB tuning with deep RL (DDPG) for high-dimensional continuous knobs. Sample-efficient, reward-driven online tuning adapts to hardware/workload shifts and beats state-of-the-art tuners and DBAs on real cloud workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5616
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.0002124895
Overall Rank
514 | 96.43%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3300085

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224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032746205
258 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.0003022091
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286 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00028990057
359 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.0002592783
408 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023953844
424 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00023616398
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765 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00017016449
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