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An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Summary: CDBTune: end-to-end automatic cloud DB tuning with deep RL (DDPG) for high-dimensional continuous knobs. Sample-efficient, reward-driven online tuning adapts to hardware/workload shifts and beats state-of-the-art tuners and DBAs on real cloud workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd3819f73a574cf5d
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00021276452
Overall Rank
314 | 97.90%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3300085

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod19,
        title = {{An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning}},
        author = {Zhang, Ji and Liu, Yu and Zhou, Ke and Li, Guoliang and Xiao, Zhili and Cheng, Bin and Xing, Jiashu and Wang, Yangtao and Cheng, Tianheng and Liu, Li and Ran, Minwei and Li, Zekang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300085},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300085},
        year = {2019}
}

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437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018310278
462 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.00017836105
1,065 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012202293
1,245 DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual" 2022 SIGMOD 0.0001136308
1,289 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011159167
1,699 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8403606e-05
2,227 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.8007923e-05
2,278 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 8.7057608e-05
2,393 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 8.5298464e-05
2,476 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 8.407183e-05
2,721 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 8.0931221e-05
2,770 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.0343719e-05
2,879 Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction 2022 VLDB 7.9126862e-05
2,908 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.8716173e-05
3,052 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.704739e-05
3,487 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2603973e-05
3,588 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1841858e-05
3,648 UDO: Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning 2021 VLDB 7.1366536e-05
3,672 Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines 2020 VLDB 7.1084283e-05
3,680 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 7.1016555e-05
3,779 HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next 2022 SIGMOD 7.0234898e-05
3,964 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.889374e-05
4,080 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.8151596e-05
4,113 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.7964307e-05
4,240 LEON: A New Framework for ML-Aided Query Optimization 2023 VLDB 6.7064546e-05
4,459 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5883555e-05
4,485 LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning 2022 SIGMOD 6.5771335e-05
4,536 One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases 2022 CIDR 6.552998e-05
4,686 LOCAT: Low-Overhead Online Configuration Auto-Tuning of Spark SQL Applications 2022 SIGMOD 6.4690725e-05
4,690 Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.4667478e-05
4,708 PreQR: Pre-training Representation for SQL Understanding 2022 SIGMOD 6.4559477e-05
4,743 Machine Learning for Databases 2021 VLDB 6.4379536e-05
4,779 Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make it Light, Accurate and Fast 2021 CIDR 6.416435e-05
4,851 The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.377837e-05
5,022 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.309271e-05
5,062 Fine-Grained Modeling and Optimization for Intelligent Resource Management in Big Data Processing 2022 VLDB 6.2896995e-05
5,080 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.2830313e-05
5,129 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.2582129e-05
5,284 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.1963031e-05
5,347 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.1701433e-05
5,700 PilotScope: Steering Databases with Machine Learning Drivers 2024 VLDB 6.028998e-05
5,715 Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.0178585e-05
5,850 Modeling Shifting Workloads for Learned Database Systems 2024 SIGMOD 5.9697921e-05
5,950 DEX: Scalable Range Indexing on Disaggregated Memory 2024 VLDB 5.934065e-05
6,033 Efficient and Effective Similar Subtrajectory Search with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020 VLDB 5.9076539e-05
6,123 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8771312e-05
6,408 A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.7921918e-05
6,453 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.7790502e-05
6,606 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.7365479e-05
6,619 Everything is a Transaction: Unifying Logical Concurrency Control and Physical Data Structure Maintenance in Database Management Systems 2021 CIDR 5.7310081e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036675568
160 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027827605
187 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025914764
195 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025619089
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024011047
243 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00023349603
252 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023101361
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021034201
378 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019541534
492 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00017406029
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017083245
598 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.0001575517
604 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.00015664234
751 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014251362
781 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014019939
783 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001401708
1,606 The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010091937
1,693 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8522869e-05
1,837 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5315292e-05
2,384 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5401256e-05
7,849 Automated design of multidimensional clustering tables for relational databases 2004 VLDB 5.4395228e-05
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