US 12,346,324 B2
Communicating updates to system metadata via a database system
Mark Schmidt, Quincy, IL (US); and Finley Jordan Lau, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Ocient Holdings LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on May 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/321,212.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/365,212, filed on May 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0385277 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/2453 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24544 (2019.01) [G06F 16/213 (2019.01); G06F 16/24532 (2019.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for execution by at least one processor of a database system, comprising:
communicating first system metadata to a plurality of nodes in a first temporal period, wherein each of the plurality of nodes updates corresponding system configuration data as the first system metadata based on receiving the first system metadata;
performing at least one database function in the first temporal period via the plurality of nodes operating in conjunction with the first system metadata based on the each of the plurality of nodes utilizing the corresponding system configuration data;
determining updated system metadata based on a first metadata change applied the first system metadata;
communicating the first metadata change to the plurality of nodes in a second temporal period after the first temporal period, wherein each of the plurality of nodes further updates the corresponding system configuration data as the updated system metadata based on the each of the plurality of nodes receiving the first metadata change and applying the first metadata change to the first system metadata; and
performing the at least one database function in the second temporal period via the plurality of nodes operating in conjunction with the updated system metadata based on the each of the plurality of nodes utilizing the corresponding system configuration data.