Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kiwon Song

Kisung Lee

Hyeeun Jun

Woojoong Lee

Various embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus, which includes: a display, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display and/or the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: add a frame to an appended file based on a request to update application data, allocate a reserved space to the appended file, update a database file based on an update condition, and allocate the reserved space to the database file.

Electronic device and method for updating database based on reserved space

An electronic device and a method for operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a first memory, a second memory configured to store therein journal data including an operation result of a transaction for data in the database and metadata, and at least processor configured to detect an occurrence of the transaction, identify characteristics of a database system to which the data corresponding to the transaction belongs and characteristics of a file system, determine whether to create a thread for synchronizing the metadata stored in the second memory with the first memory based on the characteristics of the file system and the characteristics of the database system, and synchronize the metadata with the first memory using the created thread corresponding to identifying that the transaction of the data satisfies a condition related to a degree of change of time of the data.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Kiwon Song