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Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned

Summary: iTuned automatically tunes database configuration parameters via adaptive sampling and planned experiments. Its cycle-stealing executor enables near-zero-overhead online tuning in production, while remaining portable across database systems and workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h930a3bd3f9a91dc3
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00021034201
Overall Rank
322 | 97.84%
DOI
10.14778/1687627.1687767

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{duan_vldb09,
        title = {{Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned}},
        author = {Duan, Songyun and Thummala, Vamsidhar and Babu, Shivnath},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687767},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687767},
        year = {2009}
}

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78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036675568
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024011047
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021276452
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018310278
473 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017684278
555 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.0001650754
783 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001401708
1,153 Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011793347
1,289 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011159167
1,699 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8403606e-05
1,708 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 9.8184303e-05
2,227 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.8007923e-05
2,721 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 8.0931221e-05
2,770 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.0343719e-05
3,052 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.704739e-05
3,159 CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions 2021 VLDB 7.5797912e-05
3,430 A Demonstration of the OtterTune Automatic Database Management System Tuning Service 2018 VLDB 7.3022151e-05
3,487 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2603973e-05
3,565 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 7.200937e-05
3,588 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1841858e-05
3,964 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.889374e-05
4,080 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.8151596e-05
4,113 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.7964307e-05
4,138 The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.782996e-05
4,459 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5883555e-05
4,470 Real-time Workload Pattern Analysis for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2023 VLDB 6.5833414e-05
4,508 Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer 2010 VLDB 6.5696141e-05
4,668 Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.4768105e-05
4,862 iTuned: A Tool for Configuring and Visualizing Database Parameters 2010 SIGMOD 6.3760696e-05
5,022 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.309271e-05
5,080 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.2830313e-05
5,188 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.2346845e-05
5,284 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.1963031e-05
5,969 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.9296488e-05
5,973 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9281867e-05
6,453 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.7790502e-05
6,732 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.6921776e-05
7,021 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.6168049e-05
7,072 E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model 2025 VLDB 5.6053987e-05
7,604 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 5.4846038e-05
7,909 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4266123e-05
7,915 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.4258674e-05
8,619 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.3001199e-05
8,826 PARAS: A Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining 2013 VLDB 5.2679852e-05
8,881 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 5.255975e-05
9,911 AgentTune: An Agent-Based Large Language Model Framework for Database Knob Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 5.1079647e-05
9,926 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 5.1079647e-05
9,962 Graph Transformers for Query Plan Representation: Potentials and Challenges 2025 VLDB 5.1014161e-05
10,089 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.0806786e-05
10,297 Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents 2026 VLDB 5.0407989e-05
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9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076265429
343 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00020510274
378 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019541534
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017083245
781 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014019939
836 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013567566
1,244 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011369155
1,826 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.5535288e-05
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