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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Arild E. Skjolsvold, Kenmore, WA (US);
Shashwat Srivastav, Seattle, WA (US);
Niranjan Nilakantan, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepali Bhardwaj, Snohomish, WA (US);
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ju Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Arild E. Skjolsvold, Kenmore, WA (US);
Shashwat Srivastav, Seattle, WA (US);
Niranjan Nilakantan, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepali Bhardwaj, Snohomish, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Partition management for a scalable, structured storage system is provided. The storage system provides storage represented by one or more tables, each of which includes rows that represent data entities. A table is partitioned into a number of partitions, each partition including a contiguous range of rows. The partitions are served by table servers and managed by a table master. Load distribution information for the table servers and partitions is tracked, and the table master determines to split and/or merge partitions based on the load distribution information.