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LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning

Summary: LlamaTune improves DBMS autotuning sample efficiency through randomized-projection dimensionality reduction, special-value-aware sampling, and knob bucketization. Across workloads, DBMS versions, and BO/RL optimizers, it achieves up to 11× fewer runs and 21% higher throughput. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h3707979133a3df80
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
7.704739e-05
Overall Rank
3,052 | 79.49%
DOI
10.14778/3551793.3551844
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BibTeX Citation

@article{kanellis_vldb22,
        title = {{LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning}},
        author = {Kanellis, Konstantinos and Ding, Cong and Kroth, Brian and Müller, Andreas and Curino, Carlo and Venkataraman, Shivaram},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2953--2965},
        doi = {10.14778/3551793.3551844},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551844},
        year = {2022}
}

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235 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00023689995
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021276452
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021034201
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018310278
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017083245
1,289 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011159167
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3,588 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1841858e-05
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