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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
May. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Mongodb, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Eliot Horowitz, New York, NY (US);
Andrew Michalski Schwerin, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Siyuan Zhou, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Eric Andrew Milkie, Stamford, CT (US);
Assignee:
MongoDB, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/273 (2019.01); G06F 11/0709 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for determining consensus within a distributed database are provided. According to one aspect, a protocol is provided that reduces or eliminates heartbeat communication between nodes of a replica set. Nodes may communicate liveness information using existing database commands and metadata associated with the database commands. According to another aspect, improved systems and methods are provided for detection of node failures and election of a new primary node.