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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Hitaisinee Himadri Tanaya, Bangalore, IN;
Lutfiye Umit Yalcinalp, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ashish Kolli, Cupertino, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and more particularly, to techniques for improving query performance on an LDAP server. One particular technique includes receiving a LDAP query having search criteria, identifying one or more search filters within the search criteria; evaluating one or more mappings for search filter patterns to index query hints based on the identified one or more search filters; identifying one or more query hints based on the evaluation of the one or more mappings; selecting one or more indices based on the one or more query hints; and executing the LDAP query on an LDAP directory using the selected one or more indices.