Distributed performance of data aggregation operations
US8732118B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 13, 2012 |
| Grant date | May 20, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 21, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/254
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are described for managing aggregation of data in a distributed manner, such as for a particular client based on specified configuration information. The described techniques may include receiving information about multi-stage data manipulation operations that are to be performed as part of the data aggregation, with each stage able to be performed in a distributed manner using multiple computing nodes—for example, a map-reduce architecture may be used, with a first stage involving the use of one or more specified map functions to be performed, and with at least a second stage involving the use of one or more specified reduce functions to be performed. In some situations, a particular set of input data may be used to generate the data for a multi-dimensional OLAP (“online analytical processing”) cube, such as for input data corresponding to a large quantity of transactions of one or more types.
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