International Business Machines Corporation

Erik Allan Kane

Clifford Jay Spinac

Alfredo V Mendoza

Gerald Johann Wilmot

James Louis Keesey

Glen Edmond Chalemin

Jing-Song Jang

Jean C Ho

Roger Georges Bitar

Angela Go Reyda

Mechanisms that dynamically check availability of hardware resources for applications of virtual environments are provided. One or more computing devices have various hardware resources available to applications of a virtual environment. Hardware resources may comprise, for example, amounts of memory, amounts or units of processing capability of one or more processors, and various types of peripheral devices. The mechanisms store hardware data pertaining to a specified amount of hardware recommended or required for an application to execute within the virtual environment. The mechanisms monitor for changes to the hardware configuration that may affect amount of hardware available to the virtual environment and/or application. If the changes to the hardware reduce the amount of available hardware to a point beyond the specified amount of hardware, the mechanisms prevent the application from being executed or prevent the changes to the hardware configuration.

Dynamic checking of hardware resources for virtual environments

In a database processing system with a partitioned database that provides relational extenders to support storage of and access to complex data types, metadata table rows are collocated with corresponding relational table partitions. Image indexes are generated and stored at system nodes with their corresponding relational table partitions. Image query processing is conditioned to account for the partitioned structure of the database.

Complex data query support in a partitioned database system

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Erik Allan Kane