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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2016
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Young Joon Kim, Stanford, CA (US);
Vilas Ketkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Shubhagam Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haritha Gongalore, Saratoga, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of lock-less data structures and processes with a multidimensional database computing environment. Lock-less algorithms or processes can be implemented with specific hardware-level instructions so as to provide atomicity. A memory stores an index cache retaining a plurality of index pages of the multidimensional database. A hash table indexes index pages in the index cache, wherein the hash table is accessible by a plurality of threads in parallel through application of the lock-less process.