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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
0.00020771604
Overall Rank
342 | 97.63%
DOI
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89 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00035598024
238 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024001206
334 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00020961385
470 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018014668
493 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00017600244
569 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.00016472308
779 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014100375
1,192 Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011836578
1,324 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.0001126122
1,663 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 0.00010148026
1,709 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.0001004117
2,428 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.6581081e-05
2,859 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.094221e-05
3,161 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 7.7501079e-05
3,298 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.6094798e-05
3,347 A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service 2018 VLDB 7.5591646e-05
3,430 CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions 2021 VLDB 7.4959348e-05
3,539 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.3903311e-05
3,555 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.3766884e-05
3,755 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 7.2037909e-05
3,911 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 7.0870659e-05
3,963 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 7.0613767e-05
4,342 Real-time Workload Pattern Analysis for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2023 VLDB 6.823998e-05
4,376 Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer 2010 VLDB 6.8022907e-05
4,445 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.7542989e-05
4,537 The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.7115627e-05
4,734 iTuned: A Tool for Configuring and Visualizing Database Parameters 2010 SIGMOD 6.6019694e-05
4,968 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.4908243e-05
5,009 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.4710516e-05
5,095 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.4313378e-05
5,184 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.3945246e-05
5,312 Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.3404686e-05
5,741 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 6.1656808e-05
5,938 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 6.097047e-05
6,162 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.0310777e-05
6,248 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 6.0022621e-05
6,502 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.9152263e-05
7,261 E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model 2025 VLDB 5.715327e-05
7,269 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.7128028e-05
7,644 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.6327117e-05
7,664 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.6285439e-05
8,212 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 5.534262e-05
8,343 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.5045113e-05
8,543 PARAS: A Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining 2013 VLDB 5.4746933e-05
8,666 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 5.4572677e-05
9,593 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 5.3086438e-05
9,720 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.2849709e-05
9,955 SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based OLTP Workload Compression 2025 VLDB 5.2232357e-05
10,047 AgentTune: An Agent-Based Large Language Model Framework for Database Knob Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,093 MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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10 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00077936311
332 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00020989244
377 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019763016
511 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017332557
764 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014253508
842 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013714142
1,251 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011559835
1,779 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.8552825e-05
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