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DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design

Summary: Integrated automatic physical design of four features: indexes, materialized views, shared-nothing partitioning, and multidimensional clustering. Hybrid design with modular components and workload reduction for scalable, near-optimal recommendations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd232ccb6ffbb0929
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00025846085
Overall Rank
189 | 98.74%
DOI
10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50095-4

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{zilio_vldb04,
        title = {{DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design}},
        author = {Zilio, Daniel C. and Rao, Jun and Lightstone, Sam and Lohman, Guy and Storm, Adam and Garcia-Arellano, Christian and Fadden, Scott},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1087--1098},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50095-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50095-4},
        year = {2004}
}

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224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023973185
309 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.0002143249
474 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017638418
496 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017347275
702 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.0001464107
756 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014209974
1,072 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012143482
1,132 Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011873466
1,282 AI Meets AI: Leveraging Query Executions to Improve Index Recommendations 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011197535
1,400 Magic mirror in my hand, which is the best in the land? An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms 2020 VLDB 0.00010759064
1,517 Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010385462
1,696 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8272691e-05
1,823 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 9.5457638e-05
1,892 Automated Partitioning Design in Parallel Database Systems 2011 SIGMOD 9.405261e-05
1,937 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.3333463e-05
2,036 Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design 2007 VLDB 9.1356845e-05
2,169 QueryFormer: A Tree Transformer Model for Query Plan Representation 2022 VLDB 8.9151935e-05
2,290 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 8.6813363e-05
2,381 To Tune or not to Tune? A Lightweight Physical Design Alerter 2006 VLDB 8.5299827e-05
2,481 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 8.3862675e-05
2,784 Automatic Physical Design Tuning: Workload as a Sequence 2006 SIGMOD 8.0021123e-05
2,864 Constrained Physical Design Tuning 2008 VLDB 7.9087048e-05
2,891 Optimal Column Layout for Hybrid Workloads 2019 VLDB 7.887378e-05
3,050 Configuration-Parametric Query Optimization for Physical Design Tuning 2008 SIGMOD 7.6969161e-05
3,361 Exact Cardinality Query Optimization for Optimizer Testing 2009 VLDB 7.3621595e-05
3,408 Native Store Extension for SAP HANA 2019 VLDB 7.3093844e-05
3,456 Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing 2017 VLDB 7.2673968e-05
3,457 Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing 2019 SIGMOD 7.2667942e-05
3,575 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1769215e-05
3,614 Updating a Cracked Database 2007 SIGMOD 7.1420426e-05
3,890 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.926806e-05
4,022 Automated Generation of Materialized Views in Oracle 2020 VLDB 6.8345671e-05
4,134 Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning 2015 SIGMOD 6.7721426e-05
4,550 AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins 2017 VLDB 6.5327021e-05
4,586 COLT: Continuous On-Line Database Tuning 2006 SIGMOD 6.5058648e-05
4,629 Index Interactions in Physical Design Tuning: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications 2009 VLDB 6.4794914e-05
4,701 Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important? 2018 SIGMOD 6.44638e-05
4,726 Learned Index Benefits: Machine Learning Based Index Performance Estimation 2022 VLDB 6.4329878e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
5,272 Endure: A Robust Tuning Paradigm for LSM Trees Under Workload Uncertainty 2022 VLDB 6.1887235e-05
5,611 StatAdvisor: Recommending Statistical Views 2009 VLDB 6.0498181e-05
5,687 HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning 2023 VLDB 6.0201937e-05
5,866 Compression Aware Physical Database Design 2011 VLDB 5.9492579e-05
6,224 Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries 2006 VLDB 5.828372e-05
6,650 Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design 2025 SIGMOD 5.7046144e-05
6,779 Guided automated learning for query workload re-optimization 2019 VLDB 5.6686556e-05
6,977 Jigsaw: A Data Storage and Query Processing Engine for Irregular Table Partitioning 2021 SIGMOD 5.6135617e-05
7,162 Sibyl: Forecasting Time-Evolving Query Workloads 2024 SIGMOD 5.5798063e-05
7,249 QueryScope: Visualizing Queries for Repeatable Database Tuning 2008 VLDB 5.5586903e-05
7,424 Index Advisors on Quantum Platforms 2024 VLDB 5.5148364e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
89 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00035265687
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
380 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019530546
1,059 Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012224962
1,246 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011355447
1,916 Microsoft Index Tuning Wizard for SQL Server 7.0 1998 SIGMOD 9.3655818e-05
2,245 Multi-Dimensional Clustering: A New Data Layout Scheme in DB2 2003 SIGMOD 8.7628897e-05
2,490 An Overview of DB2 Parallel Edition 1995 SIGMOD 8.3779406e-05
3,007 The Value of Merge-Join and Hash-Join in SQL Server 1999 VLDB 7.7452155e-05
7,838 Automated design of multidimensional clustering tables for relational databases 2004 VLDB 5.4264579e-05
13,183 SMART: Making DB2 (More) Autonomic 2002 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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