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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
5617
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00021420477
Overall Rank
510 | 96.46%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3300085

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779 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00016719473
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1,816 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00010438512
1,892 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010176219
3,066 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 7.6255556e-05
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3,144 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 7.4844943e-05
3,241 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 7.32744e-05
3,466 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.0645718e-05
3,655 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 6.8723042e-05
3,819 Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction 2022 VLDB 6.7267885e-05
3,995 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 6.5475871e-05
4,151 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 6.4020605e-05
4,180 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 6.3725334e-05
4,216 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 6.3448176e-05
4,377 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 6.2331947e-05
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4,431 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.1870601e-05
4,572 Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines 2020 VLDB 6.068399e-05
4,587 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.0594195e-05
4,658 PreQR: Pre-training Representation for SQL Understanding 2022 SIGMOD 6.0084453e-05
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4,799 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 5.9082876e-05
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5,289 LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning 2022 SIGMOD 5.5790771e-05
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5,463 The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data 2023 SIGMOD 5.4920768e-05
5,477 Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries 2021 SIGMOD 5.4856699e-05
5,579 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 5.4224124e-05
5,630 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 5.4010111e-05
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6,564 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.0037892e-05
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6,774 A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS 2022 CIDR 4.9253635e-05
6,860 Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data 2023 SIGMOD 4.9008421e-05
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183 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036859633
224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032743209
258 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00030196528
283 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00029024583
285 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00028978423
371 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00025382677
407 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023941779
423 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00023628474
517 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021193179
528 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.0002085799
661 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00018488168
662 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00018478597
760 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00017003914
841 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00015987128
1,018 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014626746
1,024 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014601525
2,153 The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models 2018 SIGMOD 9.418541e-05
2,231 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.2367968e-05
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2,979 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 7.7833926e-05
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