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DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases
Summary: DBSherlock is a practical OLTP diagnostic tool, analyzing hundreds of lifetime statistics and configurations to identify a few root causes. Root causes are reincorporated into an evolving causal model to improve future diagnoses, improving accuracy over SOTA.
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Paper ID
h873b9f923e22d74b
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00014022168
Overall Rank
782 | 94.75%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2915218
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{yoon_sigmod16,
title = {{DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases}},
author = {Yoon, Dong Young and Niu, Ning and Mozafari, Barzan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915218},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915218},
year = {2016}
}
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