Database Workload Capacity Planning using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning
Summary: Time-series analysis with supervised ML to forecast resources for deeper DB layers - clustered DBs, apps, and transaction groups. Identifies recurring patterns and shocks to reduce forecast complexity and improve accuracy for complex workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Antony S. Higginson (Oracle)
- 2. Mihaela Dediu (Oracle)
- 3. Octavian Arsene (Oracle)
- 4. Norman W. Paton (University of Manchester)
- 5. Suzanne M. Embury (University of Manchester)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{higginson_sigmod20,
title = {{Database Workload Capacity Planning using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning}},
author = {Higginson, Antony S. and Dediu, Mihaela and Arsene, Octavian and Paton, Norman W. and Embury, Suzanne M.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386140},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386140},
year = {2020}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,861 | RobustPeriod: Robust Time-Frequency Mining for Multiple Periodicity Detection | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.0666117e-05 |
| 10,686 | ABase: the Multi-Tenant NoSQL Serverless Database for Diverse and Dynamic Workloads in Large-scale Cloud Environments | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,151 | Flux: Decoupled Auto-Scaling for Heterogeneous Query Workload in Alibaba AnalyticDB | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,327 | Dynamic Workload Management for Very Large Data Warehouses - Juggling Feathers and Bowling Balls | 2007 | VLDB | 6.7574155e-05 |
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