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Self-Driving Database Management Systems

Summary: Introduces Peloton, the first self-driving DBMS that replaces human-in-the-loop tuning with a unified planning component that autonomously controls physical design and runtime knobs. Uses workload prediction (deep learning), modern hardware, and adaptive architectures to enable proactive, integrated optimizations beyond prior advisory tools. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha381533670730245
Venue
CIDR
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00023973185
Overall Rank
224 | 98.51%
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@inproceedings{pavlo_cidr17,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '17},
        title = {{Self-Driving Database Management Systems}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Pavlo, Andrew and Angulo, Gustavo and Arulraj, Joy and Lin, Haibin and Lin, Jiexi and Ma, Lin and Menon, Prashanth and Mowry, Todd C. and Perron, Matthew and Quah, Ian and Santurkar, Siddharth and Tomasic, Anthony and Toor, Skye and Van Aken, Dana and Wang, Ziqi and Wu, Yingjun and Xian, Ran and Zhang, Tieying},
        year = {2017}
}

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151 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00028611216
189 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025846085
196 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025581936
243 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00023296011
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023037921
313 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021288111
380 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019530546
496 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017347275
583 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00015964021
586 Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation 2011 SIGMOD 0.00015905357
604 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.00015642703
757 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014202187
775 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014062388
830 Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013571967
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1,188 Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011580449
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