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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2015
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Le Cai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Qingqing Zhou, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kamini Jagtiani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a number of initial servers in a massively parallel processing (MPP) database cluster and determining an initial bucket configuration of the MPP database cluster, where the initial bucket configuration has a number of initial buckets. The method also includes adding a number of additional servers to the MPP database cluster to produce a number of updated servers, where the updated servers include the initial servers and the additional servers and creating an updated bucket configuration in accordance with the number of initial servers, the initial bucket configuration, and the number of additional servers, where the updated bucket configuration has a number of updated buckets. Additionally, the method includes redistributing data of the MPP cluster in accordance with the updated bucket configuration.