Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads

Summary: Introduces M&M, a feedback-based tuner that independently adjusts per-class multiprogramming levels and memory to meet response-time targets despite shared-resource interference. Simulation shows near-target performance for mixed short transactions and long ad hoc joins. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h6bb6c1cd6f8ad85a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 8.4854028e-05
Overall Rank: 2,425 | 83.70%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Kurt P. Brown (IBM)
2. Manish Mehta (University of Wisconsin)
3. Michael J. Carey (IBM)
4. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{brown_vldb94,
        title = {{Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads}},
        author = {Brown, Kurt P. and Mehta, Manish and Carey, Michael J. and Livny, Miron},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
598	Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle	2005	CIDR	0.00015761263
604	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.0001566686
780	Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering	2002	VLDB	0.00014025444
1,271	Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	0.00011252507
1,875	Storage Management in AsterixDB	2014	VLDB	9.4576907e-05
2,437	Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited*	1996	SIGMOD	8.4668531e-05
4,315	Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	6.6691188e-05
4,519	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.5628572e-05
12,548	Workload Management for Big Data Analytics	2013	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00081992507
2,212	Managing Memory to Meet Multiclass Workload Response Time Goals	1993	VLDB	8.8207908e-05
2,385	Dynamic Memory Allocation for Multiple-Query Workloads	1993	VLDB	8.5394982e-05

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