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Automatic Indexing in Oracle

Summary: Oracle automates incremental index creation, validation, deployment, and removal—including expression indexes—using isolated evaluation and DML-cost accounting, without a clone. SQL Plan Management contains regressions as workloads evolve; experiments report 15% faster performance and 60% space reclamation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h41908a45a762a64c
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
5.2606925e-05
Overall Rank
8,798 | 41.03%
DOI
10.14778/3750616.3750616
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BibTeX Citation

@article{chakkappen_vldb25,
        title = {{Automatic Indexing in Oracle}},
        author = {Chakkappen, Sunil and Kunjibettu, Shreya and McGreer, Daniel and Kishi, Masoomeh Javidi and Su, Hong and Ziauddin, Mohamed and Zait, Mohamed and Li, Zhan and Zhang, Yuying},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4924--4937},
        doi = {10.14778/3750616.3750616},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750616.3750616},
        year = {2025}
}

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10,903 ReSequel: Robust LLM-assisted Query Rewriting and Optimization using Templatization and Sampling 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,986 AutoLiquid: Autonomic Data Layout Optimization for the Databricks Lakehouse 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,988 Evaluating the Practical Effectiveness of LLM-Driven Index Tuning on Microsoft SQL Server 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,998 Real-time SQL Plan Management in Oracle 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
15 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00061463175
89 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00035265687
151 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00028611216
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023973185
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023037921
380 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019530546
493 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001735831
532 Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g 2004 VLDB 0.0001681305
1,282 AI Meets AI: Leveraging Query Executions to Improve Index Recommendations 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011197535
1,517 Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010385462
1,696 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8272691e-05
1,846 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5057831e-05
2,392 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5172189e-05
3,614 Updating a Cracked Database 2007 SIGMOD 7.1420426e-05
3,890 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.926806e-05
4,068 Semi-Automatic Index Tuning: Keeping DBAs in the Loop 2012 VLDB 6.8083363e-05
4,701 Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important? 2018 SIGMOD 6.44638e-05
4,726 Learned Index Benefits: Machine Learning Based Index Performance Estimation 2022 VLDB 6.4329878e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
6,121 Breaking It Down: An In-depth Study of Index Advisors 2024 VLDB 5.863893e-05
6,771 Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis 2019 VLDB 5.669285e-05
9,144 Automatic Index Selection for Large-Scale Datalog Computation 2019 VLDB 5.2072761e-05
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