Patent ID: 9747339
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of managing client access to a distributed database implemented with multiple coordinating nodes on a network, the method comprising: receiving, by a server and over the network, a database request from a client machine, the database request including (i) a query description and (ii) a plausibility condition, the plausibility condition based on a priori information; in response to receiving the database request, submitting a first query to the distributed database, the first query based on the query description and specifying a first consistency level, the first consistency level indicative of a first number of nodes of the distributed database to be accessed in performing the first query; receiving, in response to the first query, a first query response from the distributed database; performing, by the server, a testing operation on the first query response, the testing operation arranged to generate a first output when the first query response meets the plausibility condition and to generate a second output when the first query response does not meet the plausibility condition; and in response to the testing operation generating the second output,