Patent ID: 9367410
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a computing system, comprising: receiving a data access request including a dataset from a client computing system at a distributed computing system, the distributed computing system including multiple computing servers hosting a region of data associated with the distributed computing system, the computing servers distributed across multiple clusters, wherein one of the computing servers is a leader server and a remaining of the computing servers are follower servers, and wherein some of the computing servers are active servers, active witness servers and shadow witness servers; writing, by the leader server, the dataset to a log file at a data storage system associated with the leader server; replicating, by the leader server, the log file to the follower servers, wherein the replicating includes: updating, by an active server of the active servers, a distributed data storage system associated with a first cluster of the clusters to which the leader server belongs with the dataset from the log file.