[anonetal]

There is lot of somewhat-researchy work on this topic, the primary one being the effort at Microsoft Research, called AutoAdmin, that started about 20 years ago. They looked at automatically creating indexes, views, histograms, and stuff like that. Peloton@CMU is a more recent incarnation of the same idea with newer tradeoffs.

Although it might sound easy, this turns out to be a very challenging problem for many technical reasons.

A primary reason for it not getting traction in practice is also that, database administrators don't like an automated tool messing with their setup and potentially nullifying all the tricks they might have played to improve the performance. This was especially true in big DB2/Oracle deployments, but is increasingly less true, which has opened it up for innovations in the last few years.