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Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark

Summary: General BO-based Spark tuner with a unified multi-objective/constraint formulation that performs online safe configuration search during real periodic job runs to eliminate offline evaluation overhead. Uses adaptive sub-space generation, approximate gradient descent, and meta-learning to accelerate search; deployed in production at Tencent, saving ~57% memory and ~35% CPU on 25K tasks within 20 iterations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h91b79571b66d23f9
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
5.7817872e-05
Overall Rank
6,450 | 56.64%
DOI
10.14778/3611540.3611548

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BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb23,
        title = {{Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark}},
        author = {Li, Yang and Jiang, Huaijun and Shen, Yu and Fang, Yide and Yang, Xiaofeng and Huang, Danqing and Zhang, Xinyi and Zhang, Wentao and Zhang, Ce and Chen, Peng and Cui, Bin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3570--3583},
        doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611548},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611548},
        year = {2023}
}

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055406774
78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036684414
231 Storm @Twitter 2014 SIGMOD 0.00023841089
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021282642
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021041865
432 Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018339357
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018315867
460 Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00017842695
606 Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015635133
940 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00012964445
1,699 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8445322e-05
1,771 Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn 2017 VLDB 9.6803752e-05
2,720 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 8.0966919e-05
2,772 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.035288e-05
3,331 VolcanoML: Speeding up End-to-End AutoML via Scalable Search Space Decomposition 2021 VLDB 7.4166095e-05
3,430 A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service 2018 VLDB 7.3056632e-05
3,486 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2636102e-05
4,079 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.818264e-05
4,681 LOCAT: Low-Overhead Online Configuration Auto-Tuning of Spark SQL Applications 2022 SIGMOD 6.4721364e-05
6,726 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.6948731e-05
7,084 KEA: Tuning an Exabyte-Scale Data Infrastructure 2021 SIGMOD 5.6029455e-05
9,693 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1399537e-05
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