1. A method of autonomously tuning a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, wherein the LDAP server includes an LDAP server cache and being configured to access an LDAP database, the method comprising: activating a tuning thread when defined conditions are met; and using the tuning thread to automatically initiate a tuning procedure to tune the LDAP server cache, to tune a database buffer pool for the LDAP server, and to perform runtime tuning of given parameters of the LDAP database, wherein the defined conditions include at least one of: (i) reaching a specified time; and (ii) a cache hit ratio of the LDAP server falling below a given threshold value.