A Comprehensive Survey of Benchmarks for Improvement of Software's Non-Functional Properties

A Blot, J Petke - ACM Computing Surveys, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Despite recent increase in research on improvement of non-functional properties of
software, such as energy usage or program size, there is a lack of standard benchmarks for …

Automatic database knob tuning: A survey

X Zhao, X Zhou, G Li - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knob tuning plays an important role in database optimization, which tunes knob settings to
optimize the database performance or improve resource utilization. However, there are …

Gptuner: A manual-reading database tuning system via gpt-guided bayesian optimization

J Lao, Y Wang, Y Li, J Wang, Y Zhang, Z Cheng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Modern database management systems (DBMS) expose hundreds of configurable knobs to
control system behaviours. Determining the appropriate values for these knobs to improve …

Towards dynamic and safe configuration tuning for cloud databases

X Zhang, H Wu, Y Li, J Tan, F Li, B Cui - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Configuration knobs of database systems are essential to achieve high throughput and low
latency. Recently, automatic tuning systems using machine learning methods (ML) have …

ML-powered index tuning: An overview of recent progress and open challenges

T Siddiqui, W Wu - ACM SIGMOD Record, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The increasing scale and complexity of workloads in modern cloud services highlight a
crucial challenge in automated index tuning: recommending high-quality indexes while …

Facilitating database tuning with hyper-parameter optimization: a comprehensive experimental evaluation

X Zhang, Z Chang, Y Li, H Wu, J Tan, F Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recently, using automatic configuration tuning to improve the performance of modern
database management systems (DBMSs) has attracted increasing interest from the …

DB-BERT: a Database Tuning Tool that" Reads the Manual"

I Trummer - Proceedings of the 2022 international conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
DB-BERT is a database tuning tool that exploits information gained via natural language
analysis of manuals and other relevant text documents. It uses text to identify database …

Leon: A new framework for ml-aided query optimization

X Chen, H Chen, Z Liang, S Liu, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Query optimization has long been a fundamental yet challenging topic in the database field.
With the prosperity of machine learning (ML), some recent works have shown the …

LlamaTune: sample-efficient DBMS configuration tuning

K Kanellis, C Ding, B Kroth, A Müller, C Curino… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

HUNTER: an online cloud database hybrid tuning system for personalized requirements

B Cai, Y Liu, C Zhang, G Zhang, K Zhou, L Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, using machine learning for performance tuning of cloud database (CDB) service
has shown great potentials. However, facing personalized requirements such as various …