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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bruce Gilbert Lindsay, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger C. Raphael, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Sherwood Taylor, Rewood City, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for distributing tasks from an external application among concurrent database application server instances in a database system for optimum load balancing, based on consensus among the instances. Each application instance identifies a task partition ownership by those in a membership group based on a time window and generates a new membership group and partition ownership based on the current partition ownership. The instance makes the new membership group and partition ownership known to other members by recoding them in the membership table and partition map. Each participation by an instance in the membership group is identified by a random number. The new membership group and partition ownership are generated and adjusted based on an average partition allocation to achieve consensus among the instances.