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

Claim 11:
12. A method comprising:
determining, by a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices, that the first computing device is a member of at least a first partition group corresponding to a first partition of multiple partitions of a metadata database, the first partition group including at least one other computing device of the plurality of computing devices, each computing device of the plurality of computing devices maintaining at least one partition of the metadata database, partitioning the metadata database into multiple partitions distributed across the plurality of computing devices;
determining, by the first computing device, 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, by the first computing device, a random time before the first time threshold to send the heartbeat communication; and
sending, by the first computing device, to the at least one other computing device in the first partition group, based on the selected random time, the heartbeat communication.