Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation

Summary: Kairos is a workload-aware database consolidation system modeling hardware needs and predicting resources. Optimizes nonlinear optimization to minimize servers with balanced load, beating VM consolidation up to 12x and reducing deployments by 5.5x–17x. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb29f45a8ce435b29
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 0.00015949541
Overall Rank: 585 | 96.07%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989357

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Carlo Curino (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Evan P. C. Jones (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4. Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{curino_sigmod11,
        title = {{Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation}},
        author = {Curino, Carlo and Jones, Evan P. C. and Madden, Samuel and Balakrishnan, Hari},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989357},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989357},
        year = {2011}
}

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224	Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2017	CIDR	0.00024013745
682	Robust Estimation of Resource Consumption for SQL Queries using Statistical Techniques	2012	VLDB	0.0001481781
890	E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00013247078
1,067	Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001219157
1,338	SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	CIDR	0.00010979494
1,939	Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads	2013	SIGMOD	9.3331247e-05
2,283	CPU Sharing Techniques for Performance Isolation in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2014	VLDB	8.6961837e-05
2,908	AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI	2021	SIGMOD	7.8742664e-05
3,058	Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions	2014	VLDB	7.6964255e-05
3,237	Characterizing Tenant Behavior for Placement and Crisis Mitigation in Multitenant DBMSs	2013	SIGMOD	7.5017163e-05
3,391	RTP: Robust Tenant Placement for Elastic In-Memory Database Clusters	2013	SIGMOD	7.3496891e-05
3,641	Nova-LSM: A Distributed, Component-based LSM-tree Key-value Store	2021	SIGMOD	7.1439198e-05
4,077	DBSeer: Resource and Performance Prediction for Building a Next Generation Database Cloud	2013	CIDR	6.8186603e-05
4,146	Parallel Analytics as a Service	2013	SIGMOD	6.7806268e-05
5,087	Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models	2017	CIDR	6.2809904e-05
5,088	ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads	2017	SIGMOD	6.2805079e-05
5,389	Flexible Resource Allocation for Relational Database-as-a-Service	2023	VLDB	6.1511236e-05
5,836	Tenant Placement in Over-subscribed Database-as-a-Service Clusters	2022	VLDB	5.97546e-05
6,124	Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads	2023	SIGMOD	5.8788211e-05
6,512	PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments	2014	SIGMOD	5.7597381e-05
6,753	Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities	2022	SIGMOD	5.6904085e-05
6,901	Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation	2021	VLDB	5.6520335e-05
6,966	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.6327836e-05
8,221	ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads	2026	VLDB	5.3759492e-05
8,323	A Demonstration of SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	SIGMOD	5.354452e-05
8,983	Resource-Adaptive Query Execution with Paged Memory Management	2025	CIDR	5.2433703e-05
9,075	Vertically Autoscaling Monolithic Applications with CaaSPER: Scalable Container-as-a-Service Performance Enhanced Resizing Algorithm for the Cloud	2024	SIGMOD	5.2283159e-05
9,908	ABase: the Multi-Tenant NoSQL Serverless Database for Diverse and Dynamic Workloads in Large-scale Cloud Environments	2025	SIGMOD	5.1103839e-05
10,319	Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud	2016	VLDB	5.0351368e-05
10,332	Re-evaluating Designs for Multi-Tenant OLTP Workloads on SSD-based I/O Subsystems	2014	SIGMOD	5.0287468e-05
12,399	Thrifty: Offering Parallel Database as a Service using the Shared-Process Approach	2015	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
641	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00015255418
835	Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013573201
1,002	Multi-Dimensional Database Allocation for Parallel Data Warehouses	2000	VLDB	0.00012598875
1,499	Multi-Tenant Databases for Software as a Service: Schema-Mapping Techniques	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010471977
2,727	Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research	2009	CIDR	8.0896376e-05
3,952	Storage Workload Estimation for Database Management Systems	2007	SIGMOD	6.9034057e-05

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