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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Authors

1. Songyun Duan (Duke University)
2. Vamsidhar Thummala (Duke University)
3. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

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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10,333	SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based OLTP Workload Compression	2025	VLDB	5.0281656e-05
10,466	HAMMER: An Automatic RAG Tuning System via Hierarchical Memory-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,580	MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,729	Scarf: Self-Adaptive Tuning via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Apache Flink	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,741	OBELISK: Efficient Offline Query Planning with Bayesian Optimization-Informed Language Model Reasoning	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,908	DBAgent: An RL-Based Agent for Autonomous Database Operations and Maintenance	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,912	Tuning the Lookahead Distance for PostgreSQL Asynchronous IO	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,918	Evaluating the Practical Effectiveness of LLM-Driven Index Tuning on Microsoft SQL Server	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,072	Libra: One-Shot Parameter Sensitivity Estimation for Transfer Learning in Database Performance Prediction	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,077	Generic Version Control: Configurable Versioning for Application-Specific Requirements	2025	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
11,103	Centrum: Model-based Database Auto-tuning with Minimal Distributional Assumptions	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,287	AQETuner: Reliable Query-level Configuration Tuning for Analytical Query Engines	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,498	Proactive Resume and Pause of Resources for Microsoft Azure SQL Database Serverless	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,130	Automated Performance Management for the Big Data Stack	2019	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,421	ConfSeer: Leveraging Customer Support Knowledge Bases for Automated Misconfiguration Detection	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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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