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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Allan L. Luo, Ontario, CA;
Craig W. Muchinsky, Austin, TX (US);
Edward B. Thorne, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for grouping records in buckets distributed across nodes a distributed database system to perform comparison of the grouped records. Upon receiving a record, data in the received record is processed to determine at least one containing bucket having attributes matching those of the received record, wherein the at least one containing bucket comprises at least one of a plurality of buckets, and wherein the buckets are assigned to the local node and the external nodes. A determination is made of at least one of the containing buckets assigned to at least one of the external nodes. At least a portion data in the received record is forwarded to each of the determined at least one external node to perform comparison matching with other records in the containing bucket at the external node.