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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

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

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

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

Database Management Systems (DBMS) are crucial for efficient data management and access control, but their administration remains challenging for Database Administrators (DBAs). Tuning, in particular, is known to be difficult. Modern…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yifan Wang , Debabrota Basu , Pierre Bourhis , Romain Rouvoy , Patrick Royer

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

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

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…

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

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

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

Tuning a database system to achieve optimal performance on a given workload is a long-standing problem in the database community. A number of recent works have leveraged ML-based approaches to guide the sampling of large parameter spaces…

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

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

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

Modern analytical query engines (AQEs) are essential for large-scale data analysis and processing. These systems usually provide numerous query-level tunable knobs that significantly affect individual query performance. While several…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Lixiang Chen , Yuxing Han , Yu Chen , Xing Chen , Chengcheng Yang , Weining Qian

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…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-05-07 S. F. Rodd , U. P. Kulkarni

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

Like any large software system, a full-fledged DBMS offers an overwhelming amount of configuration knobs. These range from static initialisation parameters like buffer sizes, degree of concurrency, or level of replication to complex runtime…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Ankur Sharma , Felix Martin Schuhknecht , Jens Dittrich

Databases are fundamental to contemporary information systems, yet traditional rule-based configuration methods struggle to manage the complexity of real-world applications with hundreds of tunable parameters. Deep reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jiahan Chen , Shuhan Qi , Yifan Li , Zeyu Dong , Mingfeng Ding , Yulin Wu , Xuan Wang
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