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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2007
Philip S. Cox, Thornhill, CA;
Leo T. M. Lau, Thornhill, CA;
Adil M. Sardar, Markham, CA;
David Tremaine, Markham, CA;
Philip S. Cox, Thornhill, CA;
Leo T. M. Lau, Thornhill, CA;
Adil M. Sardar, Markham, CA;
David Tremaine, Markham, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method to streamline updates to an index in a shared-nothing architecture. The apparatus may include an association module, a consolidation module, and a processing module. The association module may associate index update requests with an index. The index update requests may be configured to update the index in response to a redistribution of data in a data table. The consolidation module may compile the index update requests prior to processing and consolidate the index update requests into a smaller number of simplified index update requests to achieve substantially the same result. The processing module may then independently process the simplified index update requests and update the index accordingly.