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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
0.00021282642
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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6,726 A Unified and Efficient Coordinating Framework for Autonomous DBMS Tuning 2023 SIGMOD 5.6948731e-05
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7,070 E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model 2025 VLDB 5.6080535e-05
7,084 KEA: Tuning an Exabyte-Scale Data Infrastructure 2021 SIGMOD 5.6029455e-05
7,492 DBMind: A Self-Driving Platform in openGauss 2021 VLDB 5.510397e-05
7,726 A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System 2022 CIDR 5.4663429e-05
7,829 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.4438901e-05
7,905 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4291824e-05
7,915 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.4276987e-05
7,925 Runtime Variation in Big Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 5.4256585e-05
7,977 The Holon Approach for Simultaneously Tuning Multiple Components in a Self-Driving Database Management System with Machine Learning via Synthesized Proto-Actions 2024 VLDB 5.4142519e-05
8,004 A Spark Optimizer for Adaptive, Fine-Grained Parameter Tuning 2024 VLDB 5.4089097e-05
8,087 Dendrite: Bolt-on Adaptivity for Data Systems 2021 SIGMOD 5.3942942e-05
8,258 The Case for NLP-Enhanced Database Tuning: Towards Tuning Tools that “Read the Manual” 2021 VLDB 5.3671363e-05
8,480 Deep Learning: Systems and Responsibility 2021 SIGMOD 5.333141e-05
8,659 ShadowAQP: Efficient Approximate Group-by and Join Query via Attribute-oriented Sample Size Allocation and Data Generation 2023 VLDB 5.2930951e-05
8,753 A New Paradigm in Tuning Learned Indexes: A Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Approach 2025 SIGMOD 5.2846898e-05
8,838 Demonstrating DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads" the Manual 2022 SIGMOD 5.2670355e-05
8,947 Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases: An Experimental Analysis 2024 SIGMOD 5.2532248e-05
9,012 ByteCard: Enhancing ByteDance’s Data Warehouse with Learned Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.2375369e-05
9,023 Rockhopper: A Robust Optimizer for Spark Configuration Tuning in Production Environment 2025 SIGMOD 5.2348677e-05
9,115 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes 2023 VLDB 5.2271833e-05
9,180 Twisted Twin: A Collaborative and Competitive Memory Management Approach in HTAP Systems 2025 VLDB 5.2120789e-05
9,222 SQL-Factory: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality and Large-Scale SQL Generation 2026 VLDB 5.2056825e-05
9,431 MLOS in Action: Bridging the Gap Between Experimentation and Auto-Tuning in the Cloud 2024 VLDB 5.1783663e-05
9,620 Db2une: Tuning Under Pressure via Deep Learning 2024 VLDB 5.1501614e-05
9,919 Waffle: In-memory Grid Index for Moving Objects with Reinforcement Learning-based Configuration Tuning System 2022 VLDB 5.1103839e-05
10,217 DBMS Fitting: Why should we learn what we already know? 2020 CIDR 5.0582281e-05
10,290 This is Going to Sound Crazy, But What If We Used Large Language Models to Boost Automatic Database Tuning Algorithms By Leveraging Prior History? We Will Find Better Configurations More Quickly Than Retraining From Scratch! 2026 SIGMOD 5.0431863e-05
10,291 Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents 2026 VLDB 5.0431863e-05
10,321 PGTuner: An Efficient Framework for Automatic and Transferable Configuration Tuning of Proximity Graphs 2026 SIGMOD 5.0346745e-05
10,333 SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based OLTP Workload Compression 2025 VLDB 5.0281656e-05
10,412 Are Learned DBMS Components Robust to Workload Drift?: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,489 On Self-Designing Learned Indexes 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,580 MCTuner: Spatial Decomposition-Enhanced Database Tuning via LLM-Guided Exploration 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,641 ESTune: Bayesian Uncertainty-Guided Early Stopping for Database Configuration Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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11,072 Libra: One-Shot Parameter Sensitivity Estimation for Transfer Learning in Database Performance Prediction 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-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 0.00036684414
160 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027837289
187 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.0002592488
195 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025628849
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024013745
243 Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database 2002 SIGMOD 0.00023358891
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023042111
322 Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned 2009 VLDB 0.00021041865
378 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019549382
491 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00017413042
508 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00017089907
598 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.00015761263
604 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.0001566686
751 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.0001425375
780 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014025444
782 DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014022168
1,605 The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010093796
1,694 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8562172e-05
1,836 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.535551e-05
2,383 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5435328e-05
7,845 Automated design of multidimensional clustering tables for relational databases 2004 VLDB 5.4420146e-05
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