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

Claim 13:
14. 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 the first virtual shard key;
program instructions to ingest the data to the second virtual shard;
program instructions to monitor a contention level for the second virtual shard;
program instructions to detect a low contention level for the second virtual shard;
program instructions to responsive to detecting the low contention level for the second virtual shard, determine that the second virtual shard is not necessary; and
program instructions to shrink the second virtual shard.