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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Jason Yang Sun, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cheng Zhu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Le Cai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Qingqing Zhou, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of relocating data in a distributed database comprises: creating, by one or more processors, a second table in the distributed database, the second table including all columns from a first table; copying, by the one or more processors, a first set of tuples from the first table to the second table; modifying, by the one or more processors, during the copying of the first set of tuples, data of the first table according to a modification; after the copying of the first set of tuples, modifying, by the one or more processors, data of the second table according to the modification; and switching, by the one or more processors, the second table for the first table in a catalog of the distributed database.