Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned

Summary: Adaptive Sampling identifies high-impact DB configuration parameters and optimal settings. Online production experiments via a cycle-stealing executor incur near-zero overhead and portable across DBMS, validated by diverse workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9850
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00023616398
Overall Rank: 424 | 97.06%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 61 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,247	Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,259	Scarf: Self-Adaptive Tuning via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Apache Flink	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,271	OBELISK: Efficient Offline Query Planning with Bayesian Optimization-Informed Language Model Reasoning	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,328	Libra: One-Shot Parameter Sensitivity Estimation for Transfer Learning in Database Performance Prediction	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,335	Generic Version Control: Configurable Versioning for Application-Specific Requirements	2025	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,370	Centrum: Model-based Database Auto-tuning with Minimal Distributional Assumptions	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,633	AQETuner: Reliable Query-level Configuration Tuning for Analytical Query Engines	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,859	Graph Transformers for Query Plan Representation: Potentials and Challenges	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,931	Proactive Resume and Pause of Resources for Microsoft Azure SQL Database Serverless	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,635	Automated Performance Management for the Big Data Stack	2019	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,930	ConfSeer: Leveraging Customer Support Knowledge Bases for Automated Misconfiguration Detection	2015	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
477	Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks	2004	VLDB	0.00022221803
516	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021196031
663	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00018469455
846	Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering	2002	VLDB	0.00015997985
887	Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015578896
1,443	Compressing SQL Workloads	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011947004
1,797	Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation	2004	SIGMOD	0.00010523169

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