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Flexible partitioning of data

US8793250B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

Nitin B. Gorde · Darsi, IN
Sumedh Suhas Pathak · Darsi, IN
Manish Bhatia · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 17, 2010
Grant date	Jul 29, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 13, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/24554
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments of a flexible application-level partitioning scheme for data storage components. A data store is accessible by one or more computing devices and includes multiple partitions. One of the partitions is identified by mapping a key value of a data item to one of the partitions according to one of multiple versions of mapping metadata. Each of the versions of mapping metadata specifies a respective list of some or all of the partitions and an approach for mapping the key value to one of the partitions. The data item is inserted into the identified partition.

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