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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wilson Chang-Yi Hsieh, Syosset, NY (US);
Alexander Lloyd, New York, NY (US);
Eric Hugh Veach, Bellevue, WA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for reading and writing data from a database table. In one aspect, a method of reading and writing data from a database table, includes: (1) initiating a write transaction to write data to a first non-key column of a row of the database table, the database table having a plurality of rows, each row comprising a primary key and a plurality of non-key columns; (2) locking the first non-key column; and (3) in accordance with a determination that the second non-key column is not locked, initiating a read transaction to read data from the second non-key column, where initiation of the read transaction occurs prior to completion of the write transaction.