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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
9851
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00023628474
Overall Rank
423 | 97.07%
DOI
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183 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036859633
371 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00025382677
510 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021420477
679 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018211621
779 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00016719473
796 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.00016541749
1,024 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014601525
1,422 Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012050431
1,533 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 0.00011462982
1,816 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00010438512
1,892 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010176219
3,105 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 7.5567226e-05
3,435 Real-time Workload Pattern Analysis for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2023 VLDB 7.0946114e-05
3,655 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 6.8723042e-05
3,905 A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service 2018 VLDB 6.6430079e-05
3,995 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 6.5475871e-05
4,180 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 6.3725334e-05
4,216 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 6.3448176e-05
4,235 CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions 2021 VLDB 6.3297728e-05
4,377 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 6.2331947e-05
4,431 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.1870601e-05
4,434 Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer 2010 VLDB 6.1851729e-05
4,587 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.0594195e-05
4,592 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 6.056004e-05
4,799 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 5.9082876e-05
4,870 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 5.8583776e-05
5,008 iTuned: A Tool for Configuring and Visualizing Database Parameters 2010 SIGMOD 5.7577872e-05
5,129 The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 5.6724875e-05
5,643 Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 5.3949759e-05
5,645 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 5.3928148e-05
5,834 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 5.3082111e-05
5,920 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 5.2686888e-05
6,265 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.1294788e-05
6,298 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.1182917e-05
6,376 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.0861082e-05
6,489 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.0373773e-05
6,564 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.0037892e-05
7,676 E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model 2025 VLDB 4.6770108e-05
7,742 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 4.6585812e-05
8,011 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 4.6022693e-05
8,036 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 4.5965825e-05
8,403 PARAS: A Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining 2013 VLDB 4.5167664e-05
8,434 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 4.5077955e-05
8,624 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 4.4786127e-05
8,714 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 4.457682e-05
9,605 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 4.3136057e-05
9,732 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 4.2901665e-05
9,955 SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based OLTP Workload Compression 2025 VLDB 4.2332427e-05
10,047 AgentTune: An Agent-Based Large Language Model Framework for Database Knob Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,093 MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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14 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.0010813443
477 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00022205608
517 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021193179
661 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00018488168
841 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00015987128
886 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015563003
1,443 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011944621
1,790 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 0.00010529479
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