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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
0.0002143249
Overall Rank
309 | 97.94%
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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411 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.0001874043
453 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.0001801482
1,064 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012181459
1,238 DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual" 2022 SIGMOD 0.00011375179
1,294 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011129451
1,700 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8224761e-05
2,227 GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization 2024 VLDB 8.7924681e-05
2,290 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 8.6813363e-05
2,389 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 8.5228689e-05
2,481 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 8.3862675e-05
2,572 ResTune: Resource Oriented Tuning Boosted by Meta-Learning for Cloud Databases 2021 SIGMOD 8.2581875e-05
2,619 Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction 2022 VLDB 8.1985665e-05
2,779 Facilitating Database Tuning with Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.0085666e-05
2,913 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.855786e-05
3,057 LlamaTune: Sample-Efficient DBMS Configuration Tuning 2022 VLDB 7.6865211e-05
3,486 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2428834e-05
3,575 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1769215e-05
3,655 UDO: Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning 2021 VLDB 7.1137504e-05
3,679 Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines 2020 VLDB 7.0849238e-05
3,687 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 7.0797286e-05
3,783 HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next 2022 SIGMOD 7.0016354e-05
3,839 Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 6.9704205e-05
3,959 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.8804723e-05
4,101 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.7930727e-05
4,247 LEON: A New Framework for ML-Aided Query Optimization 2023 VLDB 6.6920059e-05
4,479 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5665703e-05
4,508 LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning 2022 SIGMOD 6.5553854e-05
4,549 One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases 2022 CIDR 6.5328866e-05
4,698 LOCAT: Low-Overhead Online Configuration Auto-Tuning of Spark SQL Applications 2022 SIGMOD 6.4476818e-05
4,703 Learned Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.4458272e-05
4,720 PreQR: Pre-training Representation for SQL Understanding 2022 SIGMOD 6.4353798e-05
4,765 Machine Learning for Databases 2021 VLDB 6.4166895e-05
4,792 Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make it Light, Accurate and Fast 2021 CIDR 6.4010108e-05
4,879 The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.3567479e-05
5,043 Fine-Grained Modeling and Optimization for Intelligent Resource Management in Big Data Processing 2022 VLDB 6.28918e-05
5,046 Breaking Down Memory Walls: Adaptive Memory Management in LSM-based Storage Systems 2021 VLDB 6.2884087e-05
5,098 DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies 2023 SIGMOD 6.2631174e-05
5,153 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.2375324e-05
5,304 An Efficient Transfer Learning Based Configuration Adviser for Database Tuning 2024 VLDB 6.1758143e-05
5,361 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.1497409e-05
5,713 PilotScope: Steering Databases with Machine Learning Drivers 2024 VLDB 6.0090633e-05
5,728 Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data 2023 SIGMOD 5.9979958e-05
5,854 Modeling Shifting Workloads for Learned Database Systems 2024 SIGMOD 5.9520525e-05
5,965 DEX: Scalable Range Indexing on Disaggregated Memory 2024 VLDB 5.9144433e-05
6,046 Efficient and Effective Similar Subtrajectory Search with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020 VLDB 5.8881195e-05
6,137 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8576977e-05
6,402 A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.7800842e-05
6,464 Towards General and Efficient Online Tuning for Spark 2023 VLDB 5.759941e-05
6,612 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.7175793e-05
6,626 Everything is a Transaction: Unifying Logical Concurrency Control and Physical Data Structure Maintenance in Database Management Systems 2021 CIDR 5.7130318e-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
74 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00037164008
160 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027775994
189 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025846085
196 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025581936
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023973185
243 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00023296011
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023037921
313 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021288111
380 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019530546
493 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001735831
496 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017347275
583 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00015964021
604 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.00015642703
756 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014209974
757 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014202187
775 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014062388
1,611 The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010066379
1,696 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8272691e-05
1,846 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5057831e-05
2,392 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5172189e-05
7,838 Automated design of multidimensional clustering tables for relational databases 2004 VLDB 5.4264579e-05
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