DBSeer: Resource and Performance Prediction for Building a Next Generation Database Cloud

Summary: Claims VM-based approaches insufficient for cloud DB pricing, tenant isolation, and performance optimization, advocating accurate predictive models of resource use and performance. Introduces DBSeer, a framework with initial predictors for OLTP/Web workloads that drive pricing, isolation and optimization decisions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he95d8c4ab18dfe44
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.7959748e-05
Overall Rank: 4,091 | 72.58%
DOI: -
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Barzan Mozafari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
3. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mozafari_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{DBSeer: Resource and Performance Prediction for Building a Next Generation Database Cloud}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Mozafari, Barzan and Curino, Carlo and Madden, Samuel},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
757	DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases	2016	SIGMOD	0.00014202187
770	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014086699
1,940	Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads	2013	SIGMOD	9.3179491e-05
2,896	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.8855049e-05
3,679	Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines	2020	VLDB	7.0849238e-05
3,860	Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores	2015	VLDB	6.9512283e-05
4,932	A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.3369302e-05
5,098	DBPA: A Benchmark for Transactional Database Performance Anomalies	2023	SIGMOD	6.2631174e-05
5,324	CliffGuard: A Principled Framework for Finding Robust Database Designs	2015	SIGMOD	6.1645235e-05
6,014	Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities	2017	SIGMOD	5.8956963e-05
6,481	Contention-Aware Lock Scheduling for Transactional Databases	2018	VLDB	5.7529529e-05
7,588	Database Isolation By Scheduling	2021	VLDB	5.4744469e-05
9,195	DBSeer: Pain-free Database Administration through Workload Intelligence	2015	VLDB	5.1958544e-05
10,352	Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud	2016	VLDB	5.0161164e-05
12,264	Demonstration of VerdictDB, the Platform-Independent AQP System	2018	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,426	Towards Systematic Data Center Design	2015	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,555	Towards Building Wind Tunnels for Data Center Design	2014	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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
586	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00015905357
628	Performance Prediction for Concurrent Database Workloads	2011	SIGMOD	0.00015421836
644	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00015201984
1,940	Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads	2013	SIGMOD	9.3179491e-05
2,102	iCBS: Incremental Cost-based Scheduling under Piecewise Linear SLAs	2011	VLDB	9.0297181e-05

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