Database management system (DBMS) configuration tuning is an essential aspect of any
data-intensive application effort. But this is historically a difficult task because DBMSs have …

In the last two decades, both researchers and vendors have built advisory tools to assist
database administrators (DBAs) in various aspects of system tuning and physical design …

This paper introduces a new transactional “database-as-a-service”(DBaaS) called
Relational Cloud. A DBaaS promises to move much of the operational burden of …

Database systems have a large number of configuration parameters that control memory
distribution, I/O optimization, costing of query plans, parallelism, many aspects of logging …

Virtual machine (VM) technology enables multiple VMs to share resources on the same host.
Resources allocated to the VMs should be re-configured dynamically in response to the …

Predicting query execution time is useful in many database management issues including
admission control, query scheduling, progress monitoring, and system sizing. Recently the …

Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost‐effective infrastructure for running HPC,
enterprise and Web applications. However, the growing demand of Cloud infrastructure has …

Multitenant data infrastructures for large cloud platforms hosting hundreds of thousands of
applications face the challenge of serving applications characterized by small data footprint …

One of the main advantages of the cloud computing paradigm is that it simplifies the time-
consuming processes of hardware provisioning, hardware purchasing and software …

Effective resource management of virtualized environments is a challenging task. State-of-
the-art management systems either rely on analytical models or evaluate resource …