PhD Defense: On Holistic Database Optimization via Leveraging Similarity Across Actions, Workloads, Configurations, and Scenarios (William Zhang)

Speaker:

William Zhang

Modern database management systems (DBMSs) have evolved to support increasingly sophisticated data-intensive applications, at the cost of substantial complexity to configure them for two reasons. First, DBMSs expose a vast configuration space with trillions of possibilities that encompass system knobs, physical design (e.g., indexes), and query options, amongst others. Second, these applications are constantly evolving with changes in data access... Read More