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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Ankit Kumar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alazel Acheson, Redmond, WA (US);
Jasmeet Chhabra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Luke Edward Kennedy, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Stephen Popick, Seattle, WA (US);
Weixun Wang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
The updating of a definition layer or schema for a large distributed database can be accomplished using a plurality of data store tiers. A distributed database can be made up of many individual data stores, and these data stores can be allocated across a set of tiers based on business logic or other allocation criteria. The update can be applied sequentially to the individual tiers, such that only data stores for a single tier are being updated at any given time. This can help to minimize downtime for the database as a whole, and can help to minimize problems that may result from an unsuccessful update. Such an approach can also allow for simplified error detection and rollback, as well as providing control over a rate at which the update is applied to the various data stores of the distributed database.