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Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics

Summary: RelM, a white-box memory autotuner, exploits interactions from containers to JVM for near-optimal tuning with low overhead. Guided-BO speeds Bayesian optimization with RelM; Spark tests show near-brute-force quality at reduced cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hababcaad858a783c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
9.8445322e-05
Overall Rank
1,699 | 88.58%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3380591

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kunjir_sigmod20,
        title = {{Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics}},
        author = {Kunjir, Mayuresh and Babu, Shivnath},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3380591},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3380591},
        year = {2020}
}

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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
2,908 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.8742664e-05
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4,457 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5913732e-05
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6,450 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.7817872e-05
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8,202 Grep: A Graph Learning Based Database Partitioning System 2023 SIGMOD 5.378708e-05
10,084 ContTune: Continuous Tuning by Conservative Bayesian Optimization for Distributed Stream Data Processing Systems 2023 VLDB 5.0830849e-05
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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
11,592 Agile-Ant: Self-managing Distributed Cache Management for Cost Optimization of Big Data Applications 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,848 Juggler: Autonomous Cost Optimization and Performance Prediction of Big Data Applications 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,911 SparkCAD: Caching Anomalies Detector for Spark Applications 2022 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036684414
88 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00035351639
145 Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer 2019 VLDB 0.0002908188
151 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00028672526
243 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00023358891
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021282642
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021041865
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018315867
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017089907
598 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00015761263
780 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014025444
940 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00012964445
5,088 ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads 2017 SIGMOD 6.2805079e-05
7,632 MRTuner: A Toolkit to Enable Holistic Optimization for MapReduce Jobs 2014 VLDB 5.4793438e-05
9,190 Tempo: Robust and Self-Tuning Resource Management in Multi-tenant Parallel Databases 2016 VLDB 5.2112843e-05
10,160 Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.0688288e-05
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