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QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Summary: QTune uses query featurization and a Double-State DDPG actor–critic model to jointly exploit SQL features and database state for configuration tuning. It supports query-, workload-, and cluster-level tuning across three DBMSs, outperforming prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h721a64cdd90a0a40
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00018315867
Overall Rank
437 | 97.07%
DOI
10.14778/3352063.3352129

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BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb19,
        title = {{QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning}},
        author = {Li, Guoliang and Zhou, Xuanhe and Li, Shifu and Gao, Bo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2118--2130},
        doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352129},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352129},
        year = {2019}
}

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