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Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases
Summary: OnlineTune tunes online cloud DBs under dynamic workloads with contextual BO and context-space partition. Safety via black-box/white-box checks and subspace adaptation; results show large gains and far fewer unsafe configurations.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6486
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2022
- Pagerank
- 5.9082876e-05
- Overall Rank
- 4,799 | 66.65%
- DOI
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10.1145/3514221.3526176
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