Patent ID: 11940975
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the program instructions further comprise:
program instructions to receive a second ingestion request to ingest data to the database;
program instructions to detect that the second ingestion request is directed to the first hotspot shard;
program instructions to generate a second virtual shard based on a second virtual shard key;
program instructions to ingest the data to the second virtual shard;
program instructions to receive a third ingestion request to ingest data to the database;
program instructions to detect that the third ingestion request is directed to the second virtual shard key;
program instructions to generate a third virtual shard based on a third virtual shard key, wherein the third virtual shard virtually duplicates at least a portion of the second virtual shard; and
program instructions to ingest the data to the third virtual shard.