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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for selecting storage locations for storage of data. According to a placement policy, a file is stored in a database comprising a plurality of storage locations. The method includes determining a query for a copy comprising policy constraints in the placement policy and storage location constraints. The method includes extracting one or more data attributes of the file. The method includes determining an attribute set for each storage location including the data attributes and the storage location attributes for each storage location. The method includes identifying a set of one or more candidate storage locations for storage of the copy of the file by evaluating the attribute set for each storage location against the query. The method includes selecting a candidate storage location from the set and providing the copy of the file to the selected candidate storage location for storage.