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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2008
Justin Harding Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrice Pominville, Brisbane, CA (US);
Justin Harding Gordon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrice Pominville, Brisbane, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for managing data items. A data store includes at least two copies of each data item. Each copy of a data item is used for a unique set of operations performed on the data item. An application programming interface receives a request from a consumer to perform an operation on a data item in the data store. The application programming interface selects, based on the received request, which copy of the data item is to be used when performing the operation.