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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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258 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00030196528
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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
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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
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