Salesforce Com, Inc.

Lars Hofhansl

Steven Tamm

Craig David Weissman

Simon Y Wong

Scott Hansma

Eric David Bezar

Nathan Jensen-Horne

Eric Lance Wilson

Walter Macklem

Alan Ballard

Varadarajan Rajaram

Mary Kathryn Scotton

Ian Varley

Dhiraj Hegde

Geoffrey John Jacoby

Alex J Araujo

Jesse Yates

A database may store a plurality of database revisions corresponding to a time period, including a current version and one or more backup versions of a data object. After a threshold time has passed, the database may identify a plurality of time intervals within the time period and identify, for each of the plurality of time intervals, at most one database revision corresponding to the time interval. The database may delete, for each of the plurality of time intervals, all of the database revisions except for the identified at most one database revision. The database may periodically repeat this process to reduce the granularity of backup data over time.

Reducing granularity of backup data over time

A database system may store data at a primary database and replicate the data to one or more disaster recover (DR) databases. The database system may determine which DR database to use for data replication based on an identifier of the data. A method for data storage may include receiving and storing a first data block and a second data block at a first database server. The method may further include transmitting a first backup request for the first data block to a second database server based on an identifier of the first data block and transmitting a second backup request for the second data block to a third database server based on an identifier of the second data block.

Identifier based data replication

Systems and methods for installing and upgrading application packages to an application platform. Application packages may be uploaded to a directory by developing users (developers) for installation by subscribing users (subscribers). Alternatively, a developer may send identification information to a subscribing user to allow that user to access and install that application package created by the developer. Application packages may also be upgraded. If a developer changes the original source package, a subscriber can choose to pull into their organization the change(s) made by the publisher while preserving any data rows the subscriber had created since first importing the package.

Methods and systems for upgrading and installing application packages to an application platform

A database may delete rows of data based on one or more predicate parameters. A method of data storage includes receiving a delete request for a database, where the delete request includes one or more predicate parameters and adding the predicate parameters to a set of deletion predicate parameters in metadata of the database. The method may further include performing a compaction of the database, where the compaction includes rewriting each data element of the database unless a key of the data element corresponds to at least one of the set of deletion predicate parameters.

Predicate based data deletion

A system may be configured to implement two or more different types of data stores for data storage. For example, the system may include a small object data store and a large object data store. The system may compare the size of a data file to a predetermined threshold size. If the data file is smaller than the predetermined threshold size, the system may write the data to the small object data store. If the data is larger than the predetermined threshold size, the system may write an intent message to the small object data store referencing the data in the large object data store, and may write the data to the large object data store. The system may update the intent message in the small object data store to indicate that the data was successfully written.

Synchronizing data stores for different size data objects

Methods and systems include embodiments that recursively save parent, grandparent, and other records in a database that depend from a record. User-provided code within a save event or trigger can thus call further save methods without corrupting the database. Junction objects, objects that reflect records with two or more parents, can also be recursively saved.

Methods and systems for recursive saving of hierarchical objects to a database

Systems, methods, and apparatus for preventing misuse of searches of a database system are provided. This prevention of misuse of database searches can enable reliable operation of the database system, as an improper query using a regular expression will not shut down or severely affect an application process that provides access to the database system. A thread of the application process determines whether an input character characters string matches the regular expression. To prevent misuse, a computational effort of the search is tracked, and compared to a threshold value. When the threshold is exceeded, an operation of the thread is exited or stopped.

Method for monitoring and controlling the processing of database searches

Systems and methods for installing and upgrading application packages to an application platform of an on-demand database service. In some embodiments, application packages are uploaded to a directory by developers for installation by subscribers. Some embodiments enable a developer to send identification information to a subscriber to allow that user to access and install an application package created by the developer. If the developer changes the original source package, the subscriber may pull into its organization the change(s) made by the publisher while preserving any data rows the subscriber had created since first importing the package. One or more flags may be set in the package definition to determine whether and to what extent customizations to a package may be made and upgraded by the subscriber and/or developer.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for aggregating on-demand database service data. These mechanisms and methods for aggregating on-demand database service data can enable embodiments to more flexibly summarize data. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may lead to enhanced aggregation features which may be used for providing more effective ways of summarizing data.

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Orinda, CA, United States of America

Lars Hofhansl