Patent ID: 11882183
Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA, LTD.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of computing devices able to communicate with each other, each computing device maintaining at least one partition of a metadata database in which the metadata database is partitioned into multiple partitions distributed across the plurality of computing devices, wherein a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices is configured by executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
determining that the first computing device is a leader of at least a first partition group corresponding to a first partition of the multiple partitions, the first partition group including at least one other computing device of the plurality of computing devices;
determining a first time threshold for a heartbeat communication to be sent to the at least one other computing device in the first partition group;
selecting a random time before the first time threshold to send the heartbeat communication; and
sending, to the at least one other computing device in the first partition group, according to the selected random time, the heartbeat communication.