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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
0.00021041865
Overall Rank
322 | 97.84%
DOI
10.14778/1687627.1687767

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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 0.00036684414
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024013745
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021282642
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018315867
472 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017692264
555 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.00016506678
782 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014022168
1,153 Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011798912
1,289 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011162479
1,699 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8445322e-05
1,708 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 9.8224587e-05
2,231 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.7982985e-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
3,051 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.7055931e-05
3,158 CGPTuner: a Contextual Gaussian Process Bandit Approach for the Automatic Tuning of IT Configurations Under Varying Workload Conditions 2021 VLDB 7.5811757e-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
3,563 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 7.2042148e-05
3,590 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1865343e-05
3,965 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.8918628e-05
4,079 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.818264e-05
4,114 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.7971182e-05
4,137 The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.7861661e-05
4,457 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5913732e-05
4,468 Real-time Workload Pattern Analysis for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2023 VLDB 6.5863349e-05
4,506 Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer 2010 VLDB 6.5726463e-05
4,666 Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.479878e-05
4,862 iTuned: A Tool for Configuring and Visualizing Database Parameters 2010 SIGMOD 6.3786959e-05
5,018 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.3121723e-05
5,077 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.2858696e-05
5,194 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.2353557e-05
5,286 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.1971399e-05
5,967 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.9324372e-05
5,974 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9305575e-05
6,450 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.7817872e-05
6,726 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.6948731e-05
7,033 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.6168499e-05
7,070 E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model 2025 VLDB 5.6080535e-05
7,598 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 5.4871733e-05
7,905 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4291824e-05
7,915 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.4276987e-05
8,620 Limousine: Blending Learned and Classical Indexes to Self-Design Larger-than-Memory Cloud Storage Engines 2024 SIGMOD 5.301557e-05
8,817 PARAS: A Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining 2013 VLDB 5.2703299e-05
8,872 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 5.2584643e-05
9,904 AgentTune: An Agent-Based Large Language Model Framework for Database Knob Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 5.1103839e-05
9,919 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 5.1103839e-05
9,956 Graph Transformers for Query Plan Representation: Potentials and Challenges 2025 VLDB 5.1038322e-05
10,084 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.0830849e-05
10,291 Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents 2026 VLDB 5.0431863e-05
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9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076195956
343 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00020519525
378 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019549382
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017089907
780 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014025444
835 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013573201
1,242 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011373611
1,826 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.5575424e-05
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