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The past decade has seen rapid growth of distributed stream data processing systems. Under these systems, a stream application is realized as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of operators, where the level of parallelism of each operator has a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jinqing Lian , Xinyi Zhang , Yingxia Shao , Zenglin Pu , Qingfeng Xiang , Yawen Li , Bin Cui

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

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

Big data analytics frameworks (BDAFs) have been widely used for data processing applications. These frameworks provide a large number of configuration parameters to users, which leads to a tuning issue that overwhelms users. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Liang Bao , Xin Liu , Weizhao Chen

Automating physical database design has remained a long-term interest in database research due to substantial performance gains afforded by optimised structures. Despite significant progress, a majority of today's commercial solutions are…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-21 R. Malinga Perera , Bastian Oetomo , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Renata Borovica-Gajic

To automatically tune configurations for the best possible system performance (e.g., runtime or throughput), much work has been focused on designing intelligent heuristics in a tuner. However, existing tuner designs have mostly ignored the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Gangda Xiong , Tao Chen

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hui Dou , Lei Jin , Yuxuan Zhou , Jiang He , Yiwen Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Task scheduling is a well-studied problem in the context of optimizing the Quality of Service (QoS) of cloud computing environments. In order to sustain the rapid growth of computational demands, one of the most important QoS metrics for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

The knob tuning aims to optimize database performance by searching for the most effective knob configuration under a certain workload. Existing works suffer two significant problems. On the one hand, there exist multiple similar even…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yu Yan , Junfang Huang , Hongzhi Wang , Jian Geng , Kaixin Zhang , Tao Yu

Day after day, the number of mobile applications deployed on cloud computing continues in increasing because o f smartphone capabilities improvement. Cloud computing has already succeeded in the web based application, for that reason, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Asmae Benali , Bouchra El Asri

We consider the problem of online fine tuning the parameters of a language model at test time, also known as dynamic evaluation. While it is generally known that this approach improves the overall predictive performance, especially when…

There have been a flurry of recent proposals on learned benefit estimators for index tuning. Although these learned estimators show promising improvement over what-if query optimizer calls in terms of the accuracy of estimated index…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chenning Wu , Sifan Chen , Wentao Wu , Yinan Jing , Zhenying He , Kai Zhang , X. Sean Wang

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

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

Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are fundamental for managing large-scale and heterogeneous data, and their performance is critically influenced by configuration parameters. Effective tuning of these parameters is essential for adapting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sein Kwon , Seulgi Baek , Hyunseo Yang , Youngwan Jo , Sanghyun Park

Changing conditions or environments can cause system dynamics to vary over time. To ensure optimal control performance, controllers should adapt to these changes. When the underlying cause and time of change is unknown, we need to rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Paul Brunzema , Alexander von Rohr , Sebastian Trimpe

The Distributed Messaging Systems (DMSs) used in IoT systems require timely and reliable data dissemination, which can be achieved through configurable parameters. However, the high-dimensional configuration space makes it difficult for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhuangwei Kang , Yogesh D. Barve , Shunxing Bao , Abhishek Dubey , Aniruddha Gokhale

Application autotuning is a promising path investigated in literature to improve computation efficiency. In this context, the end-users define high-level requirements and an autonomic manager is able to identify and seize optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Tomas Martinovic , Davide Gadioli , Gianluca Palermo , Cristina Silvano

The web serving protocol stack is constantly changing and evolving to tackle technological shifts in networking infrastructure and website complexity. As a result of this evolution, the web serving stack includes a plethora of protocols and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Usama Naseer , Theophilus Benson

Parallel file systems contain complicated I/O paths from clients to storage servers. An efficient I/O path requires proper settings of multiple parameters, as the default settings often fail to deliver optimal performance, especially for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Md. Hasanur Rashid , Youbiao He , Forrest Sheng Bao , Dong Dai