Automated Clustering Recommendation With Database Zone Maps
Summary: Automates clustering choice by analyzing workload and recommending linear and z-order clustering plus zone maps. Shows substantial gains on TPC-H and real data; first auto-clustering approach, to be released in Oracle Autonomous Database. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Suratna Budalakoti (Oracle)
- 2. Mohamed Ziauddin (Oracle)
- 3. Andrew Witkowski (Oracle)
- 4. You Jung Kim (Oracle)
- 5. Ramarajan Krishnamachari (Oracle)
- 6. Alan Wood (Oracle)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{budalakoti_sigmod24,
title = {{Automated Clustering Recommendation With Database Zone Maps}},
author = {Budalakoti, Suratna and Ziauddin, Mohamed and Witkowski, Andrew and Kim, You Jung and Krishnamachari, Ramarajan and Wood, Alan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3626246.3653397},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626246.3653397},
year = {2024}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,414 | Workload-Aware Incremental Reclustering in Cloud Data Warehouses | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.3350162e-05 |
| 10,916 | AutoLiquid: Autonomic Data Layout Optimization for the Databricks Lakehouse | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 253 | Database Cracking | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00023042111 |
| 295 | Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values | 2000 | PODS | 0.00021914399 |
| 1,132 | Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00011898257 |
| 2,765 | Instance-Optimized Data Layouts for Cloud Analytics Workloads | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.0439015e-05 |
| 3,762 | Dimensions Based Data Clustering and Zone Maps | 2017 | VLDB | 7.0421949e-05 |
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