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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2016
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Vidya Hegde, Bangalore, IN;
Jean de Lavarene, Versailles, FR;
Douglas Surber, Orinda, CA (US);
Mark Dilman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Leonid Novak, Redwood City, CA (US);
Wei Ming Hu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ashok Shivarudraiah, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tong Zhou, Merrick, NY (US);
Ilya Taranov, Redwood City, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing direct access to a sharded database. A shard director provides access by software client applications to database shards. A connection pool (e.g., a Universal Connection Pool, UCP) and database driver (e.g., a Java Database Connectivity, JDBC, component) can be configured to allow a client application to provide a shard key, either during connection checkout or at a later time; recognize shard keys specified by the client application; and enable connection by the client application to a particular shard or chunk. The approach enables efficient re-use of connection resources, and faster access to appropriate shards.