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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
May. 20, 2013
Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael James Boyer Epstein, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Andrew Fikes, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wilson Cheng-yi Hsieh, Syosset, NY (US);
Alexander Lloyd, New York, NY (US);
Yasushi Saito, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michal Piotr Szymaniak, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sebastian Kanthak, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Jorgen Taylor, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael James Boyer Epstein, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Andrew Fikes, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh, Syosset, NY (US);
Alexander Lloyd, New York, NY (US);
Yasushi Saito, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michal Piotr Szymaniak, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sebastian Kanthak, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Jorgen Taylor, Palo Alto, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed storage system is provided. The distributed storage system includes multiple front-end servers and zones for managing data for clients. Data within the distributed storage system is associated with a plurality of accounts and divided into a plurality of groups, each group including a plurality of splits, each split being associated with a respective account, and each group having multiple tablets and each tablet managed by a respective tablet server of the distributed storage system. Data associated with different accounts may be replicated within the distributed storage system using different data replication policies. There is no limit to the amount of data for an account by adding new splits to the distributed storage system. In response to a client request for a particular account's data, a front-end server communicates such request to a particular zone that has the client-requested data and returns the client-requested data to the requesting client.