William Zhang

According to our database, William Zhang authored at least 12 papers between 2021 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2025

This is Going to Sound Crazy, But What If We Used Large Language Models to Boost Automatic Database Tuning Algorithms By Leveraging Prior History? We Will Find Better Configurations More Quickly Than Retraining From Scratch!

William Zhang, Wan Shen Lim, Andrew Pavlo

CoRR, October, 2025

BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications.

Matthew Butrovich, Samuel Arch, Wan Shen Lim, William Zhang, Jignesh M. Patel, Andrew Pavlo

Proc. ACM Manag. Data, June, 2025

Automated Database Tuning vs. Human-Based Tuning in a Simulated Stressful Work Environment: A Demonstration of the Database Gym.

Patrick Wang, Wan Shen Lim, William Zhang, Samuel Arch, Andrew Pavlo

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data, 2025

2024

The Holon Approach for Simultaneously Tuning Multiple Components in a Self-Driving Database Management System with Machine Learning via Synthesized Proto-Actions.

William Zhang, Wan Shen Lim, Matthew Butrovich, Andrew Pavlo

Proc. VLDB Endow., July, 2024

Hit the Gym: Accelerating Query Execution to Efficiently Bootstrap Behavior Models for Self-Driving Database Management Systems.

Wan Shen Lim, Lin Ma, William Zhang, Matthew Butrovich, Samuel Arch, Andrew Pavlo

Proc. VLDB Endow., July, 2024

Reproducibility Report for ACM SIGMOD 2024 Paper: 'Faster Algorithms for Fair Max-Min Diversification in <i>R^d</i>'.

Lukas Schwerdtfeger, William Zhang

Proceedings of the Reproducibility Reports of the 2024 International Conference on Management of Data, 2024

2023

Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass.

Matthew Butrovich, Karthik Ramanathan, John Rollinson, Wan Shen Lim, William Zhang, Justine Sherry, Andrew Pavlo

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2023

Database Gyms.

Wan Shen Lim, Matthew Butrovich, William Zhang, Andrew Crotty, Lin Ma, Peijing Xu, Johannes Gehrke, Andrew Pavlo

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2023

2022

Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems.

Matthew Butrovich, Wan Shen Lim, Lin Ma, John Rollinson, William Zhang, Yu Xia, Andrew Pavlo

Proceedings of the SIGMOD '22: International Conference on Management of Data, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 12, 2022

2021

Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation.

Andy Pavlo, Matthew Butrovich, Lin Ma, Prashanth Menon, Wan Shen Lim, Dana Van Aken, William Zhang

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021

MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems.

Lin Ma, William Zhang, Jie Jiao, Wuwen Wang, Matthew Butrovich, Wan Shen Lim, Prashanth Menon, Andrew Pavlo

Proceedings of the SIGMOD '21: International Conference on Management of Data, 2021

Everything is a Transaction: Unifying Logical Concurrency Control and Physical Data Structure Maintenance in Database Management Systems.

Ling Zhang, Matthew Butrovich, Tianyu Li, Andrew Pavlo, Yash Nannapaneni, John Rollinson, Huanchen Zhang, Ambarish Balakumar, Daniel Biales, Ziqi Dong, Emmanuel J. Eppinger, Jordi E. Gonzalez, Wan Shen Lim, Jianqiao Liu, Lin Ma, Prashanth Menon, Soumil Mukherjee, Tanuj Nayak, Amadou Ngom, Dong Niu, Deepayan Patra, Poojita Raj, Stephanie Wang, Wuwen Wang, Yao Yu, William Zhang

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2021