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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2016
Ab Initio Technology Llc, Lexington, MA (US);
Bryan Phil Dourus, Framingham, MA (US);
Stephen A. Revilak, Arlington, MA (US);
Ab Initio Technology LLC, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
Managing database transactions in a distributed database system includes: maintaining, at a first node, a first plurality of records of transactions, each associated with a transaction and including a start time of the transaction and a start time of an oldest transaction that was active at the start time of the transaction; maintaining, at a second node, a second plurality of records of transactions, including records of completed transactions associated with the second node, each including a transaction start time and a transaction end time; receiving at the second node, a message from the first node including a start time of an oldest transaction that was active at the transaction start time of the oldest currently active transaction in the system; and removing, from the second plurality of records, any records of completed transactions with a transaction end time occurring before the start time of the oldest transaction.