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Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning

Summary: Automated DBMS tuning via large-scale ML (OtterTune) to select impactful knobs, map unseen workloads to known ones, and recommend settings. Evaluated on three DBMSs; achieves configurations as good as or better than existing tools or human experts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h2102c219f1cf4d9c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00036684414
Overall Rank
78 | 99.48%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064029

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{aken_sigmod17,
        title = {{Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning}},
        author = {Van Aken, Dana and Pavlo, Andrew and Gordon, Geoffrey J. and Zhang, Bohan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064029},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064029},
        year = {2017}
}

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