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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
David Alan Lutz, Renton, WA (US);
Xianglong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Wei Xiao, Kirkland, WA (US);
Stefano Stefani, Issaquah, WA (US);
Timothy Andrew Rath, Seattle, WA (US);
Somasundaram Perianayagam, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A distributed database management system comprising a plurality of computing nodes may distribute data evenly across all nodes. A definition of a primary key that divides the primary key into at least a first key portion and a second key portion may be utilized to locate items related by a first key portion to a specific computing node. Application-consistent queries, local transactions and pivoting operations may be performed on items related by a first key portion.