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Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases
Summary: DRL-based partitioning advisor for cloud DBMS automates partitioning decisions for OLAP workloads by learning cost tradeoffs and placement policies. Evaluations show it finds non-trivial partitionings across diverse workloads and outperforms classical automated approaches.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5920
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2020
- Pagerank
- 7.6255556e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,066 | 78.70%
- DOI
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10.1145/3318464.3389704
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