Moneyball: Proactive Auto-Scaling in Microsoft Azure SQL Database Serverless

Summary: Moneyball introduces proactive auto-scaling for Azure SQL Database Serverless by predicting pause/resume patterns to pre-warm resources, reducing wake-up latency. It avoids short idle reclamation to balance QoS and cost, enabling global adoption. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha93fd0cb2273f6de
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 9.213369e-05
Overall Rank: 1,996 | 86.59%
DOI: 10.14778/3514061.3514073
PDF: Download (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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Authors

1. Olga Poppe (Microsoft)
2. Qun Guo (Microsoft)
3. Willis Lang (Microsoft)
4. Pankaj Arora (Microsoft)
5. Morgan Oslake (Microsoft)
6. Shize Xu (Microsoft)
7. Ajay Kalhan (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{poppe_vldb22,
        title = {{Moneyball: Proactive Auto-Scaling in Microsoft Azure SQL Database Serverless}},
        author = {Poppe, Olga and Guo, Qun and Lang, Willis and Arora, Pankaj and Oslake, Morgan and Xu, Shize and Kalhan, Ajay},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1279--1287},
        doi = {10.14778/3514061.3514073},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3514061.3514073},
        year = {2022}
}

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3,950	Eigen: End-to-end Resource Optimization for Large-Scale Databases on the Cloud	2023	VLDB	6.9035063e-05
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7,348	PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads	2023	VLDB	5.5435627e-05
8,357	Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure	2023	SIGMOD	5.3463255e-05
9,084	Vertically Autoscaling Monolithic Applications with CaaSPER: Scalable Container-as-a-Service Performance Enhanced Resizing Algorithm for the Cloud	2024	SIGMOD	5.2258409e-05
9,915	ABase: the Multi-Tenant NoSQL Serverless Database for Diverse and Dynamic Workloads in Large-scale Cloud Environments	2025	SIGMOD	5.1079647e-05
9,965	Lorentz: Learned SKU Recommendation Using Profile Data (DMDS)	2024	SIGMOD	5.1014161e-05
10,126	Eigen+: Memory Over-Subscription for Alibaba Cloud Databases	2025	SIGMOD	5.0745433e-05
10,285	ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks	2024	VLDB	5.0431349e-05
10,669	Making LSM-Tree-based Key-Value Store Practical and Efficient for Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud Databases	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
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10,928	ScaleSense: Cost-Intelligent Scaling Framework via Learned Resource Estimation in Alibaba AnalyticDB	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,952	Lakebase: Serverless Postgres over Open Lake Storage	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
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11,505	Flux: Decoupled Auto-Scaling for Heterogeneous Query Workload in Alibaba AnalyticDB	2024	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,565	Intelligent Pooling: Proactive Resource Provisioning in Large-scale Cloud Service	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,616	Towards Millions of Database Transmission Services in the Cloud	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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224	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00024011047
1,068	Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012186505
1,160	P-Store: An Elastic Database System with Predictive Provisioning	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011763834
1,236	Dhalion: Self-Regulating Stream Processing in Heron	2017	VLDB	0.00011400483
5,767	Survivability of Cloud Databases - Factors and Prediction	2018	SIGMOD	5.9997338e-05
6,903	Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation	2021	VLDB	5.6493582e-05
10,326	Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud	2016	VLDB	5.0327532e-05
11,998	Toto - Benchmarking the Efficiency of a Cloud Service	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

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