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We introduce {\lambda}-Tune, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated database system tuning. The design of {\lambda}-Tune is motivated by the capabilities of the latest generation of LLMs. Different from prior…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Victor Giannankouris , Immanuel Trummer

Modern database management systems (DBMS) expose hundreds of configurable knobs to control system behaviours. Determining the appropriate values for these knobs to improve DBMS performance is a long-standing problem in the database…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiale Lao , Yibo Wang , Yufei Li , Jianping Wang , Yunjia Zhang , Zhiyuan Cheng , Wanghu Chen , Mingjie Tang , Jianguo Wang

As data volumes continue to grow, optimizing database performance has become increasingly critical, making the implementation of effective tuning methods essential. Among various approaches, database parameter tuning has proven to be a…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sein Kwon , Youngwan Jo , Seungyeon Choi , Jieun Lee , Huijun Jin , Sanghyun Park

Database knob tuning is essential for optimizing the performance of modern database management systems, which often expose hundreds of knobs with continuous or categorical values. However, the large number of knobs and the vast…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zihan Yan , Rui Xi , Mengshu Hou

Configuration knobs of database systems are essential to achieve high throughput and low latency. Recently, automatic tuning systems using machine learning methods (ML) have shown to find better configurations compared to experienced…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xinyi Zhang , Hong Wu , Yang Li , Jian Tan , Feifei Li , Bin Cui

Configuration tuning is critical for database performance. Although recent advancements in database tuning have shown promising results in throughput and latency improvement, challenges remain. First, the vast knob space makes direct…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xinyue Yang , Chen Zheng , Yaoyang Hou , Renhao Zhang , Yinyan Zhang , Yanjun Wu , Heng Zhang

The management of database system configurations is a challenging task, as there are hundreds of configuration knobs that control every aspect of the system. This is complicated by the fact that these knobs are not standardized,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Karthick Prasad Gunasekaran , Kajal Tiwari , Rachana Acharya

Managing the configurations of a database system poses significant challenges due to the multitude of configuration knobs that impact various system aspects.The lack of standardization, independence, and universality among these knobs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Karthick Prasad Gunasekaran , Kajal Tiwari , Rachana Acharya

MLtuner automatically tunes settings for training tunables (such as the learning rate, the momentum, the mini-batch size, and the data staleness bound) that have a significant impact on large-scale machine learning (ML) performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Henggang Cui , Gregory R. Ganger , Phillip B. Gibbons

Knob tuning plays a crucial role in optimizing databases by adjusting knobs to enhance database performance. However, traditional tuning methods often follow a Try-Collect-Adjust approach, proving inefficient and database-specific.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yiyan Li , Haoyang Li , Zhao Pu , Jing Zhang , Xinyi Zhang , Tao Ji , Luming Sun , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Online OS tuning can improve long-running services, but existing controllers are poorly matched to live hosts. They treat scheduler, power, memory, and I/O controls as black-box variables and optimize a scalar reward. This view ignores…

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Tuning database management systems (DBMSs) is challenging due to trillions of possible configurations and evolving workloads. Recent advances in tuning have led to breakthroughs in optimizing over the possible configurations. However, due…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-21 William Zhang , Wan Shen Lim , Andrew Pavlo

Modern database management systems (DBMSs) expose hundreds of configuration knobs that critically influence performance. Existing automated tuning methods either adopt a data-driven paradigm, which incurs substantial overhead, or rely on…

Recently, using automatic configuration tuning to improve the performance of modern database management systems (DBMSs) has attracted increasing interest from the database community. This is embodied with a number of systems featuring…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xinyi Zhang , Zhuo Chang , Yang Li , Hong Wu , Jian Tan , Feifei Li , Bin Cui

Performance tuning of Database Management Systems(DBMS) is both complex and challenging as it involves identifying and altering several key performance tuning parameters. The quality of tuning and the extent of performance enhancement…

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Traditional query optimization relies on cost-based optimizers that estimate execution cost (e.g., runtime, memory, and I/O) using predefined heuristics and statistical models. Improving these heuristics requires substantial engineering…

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Selecting appropriate values for the configurable parameters of Database Management Systems (DBMS) to improve performance is a significant challenge. Recent machine learning (ML)-based tuning systems have shown strong potential, but their…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yibo Wang , Jiale Lao , Chen Zhang , Cehua Yang , Jianguo Wang , Mingjie Tang

Faced with the challenges of big data, modern cloud database management systems are designed to efficiently store, organize, and retrieve data, supporting optimal performance, scalability, and reliability for complex data processing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Limeng Zhang , M. Ali Babar

DBTuneSuite is a suite of experiments on four widely deployed free database systems to test their performance under various query/upsert loads and under various tuning options. The suite provides: (i) scripts to generate data and to install…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Amani Agrawal , Tianxin Wang , Dennis Shasha

The performance of modern DBMSs such as MySQL and PostgreSQL heavily depends on the configuration of performance-critical knobs. Manual tuning these knobs is laborious and inefficient due to the complex and high-dimensional nature of the…

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