Patent ID: 9396242
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: monitoring for changes to a replicated database by an instance of the replicated database, wherein the instance is one of a plurality instances of the replicated database, and each instance is separately responsible for multiple database tables local to the respective instances, and wherein the plurality of instances of the replicated database comprise two or more data centers each data center having a leader instance and one or more non-leader instances, the one or more non-leader instances to communicate with other non-leader instances of the same data center and the leader instance of the same data center and not to instances of other data centers, the leader instance to communicate with leader instances of other data centers and not with non-leader instances of other data centers, the monitoring including detecting by the instance a change to at least one record of the local database tables; receiving by the instance a chunk from a remote instance of the replicated database, which has metadata identifying a set of changed records for database tables of the remote instance;