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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
May. 07, 2018
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Carl Rene D'Halluin, Melle, BE;
Frederik Jacqueline Luc De Schrijver, Wenduine, BE;
Jochen Maes, Zele, BE;
Romain Raymond Agnes Slootmaekers, Heverlee, BE;
Nicolas Maria Sylvain Trangez, Destelbergen, BE;
Jan Doms, Ledeberg, BE;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamic sharding of a database comprising data identifiable by keys comprised within a global ordered range. When handling a request for data of at least one key: providing the request to a predetermined shard store; the predetermined shard store verifying, by means of its local subrange collection, whether the at least one key is present in a local subrange of a shard stored on the predetermined shard store; and when at least one key is not present in a local subrange of a shard stored on the predetermined shard store, returning a message comprising the local subrange collection of the predetermined shard store.