CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01)] | 21 Claims |
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by a processor causes the processor to perform a set of acts comprising:
receiving a request to access data associated with a distributed metadata store;
processing the request to access data using the distributed metadata store, at least by:
determining an object identifier of a metadata storage container of a plurality of metadata storage containers using an identification of a data storage container having the requested data, wherein the plurality of metadata storage containers being located on respective computing nodes of a plurality of computing nodes; and
querying the distributed metadata store using the determined object identifier, wherein the distributed metadata store uses the determined object identifier to determine a location of metadata in the distributed metadata store and the metadata at the location is accessed to determine the location of the data.
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