Patent ID: 11960544
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the number of processor units executes program instructions to:
receive a second query from the second client in the group of clients;
determine whether the result set in the shared cache is a partial match to the second query;
determine whether retrieving the result set from the shared cache provides better a performance than retrieving the result set from a database in response to the result set being the partial match to the second query;
retrieve the result set from the shared cache in response to a determination that retrieving the result set from the shared cache provides better the performance than retrieving the result set from the database, wherein the result set retrieved from the shared cache is a first result set;
retrieve a second result set from the database, wherein the second result set and the first result set are a full match to the second query;
combine the first result set and the second result set to form a complete result set; and
sending the complete result set to the second client.