Patent ID: 8793234

Claim:
A database management method of a higher-level master node in a recordable database hierarchically including master nodes, comprising: receiving, by a higher-level master node, a write set generated by a database processing unit of any one of lower-level master nodes from a shadow copy of a database and a heap tuple map expanded in a memory for the database processing unit, when an instruction for updating the database is issued in the lower-level master node; comparing, by the higher-level master node, the heap tuple map in the received write set and the database of the higher-level master node, and verifying, by the higher-level master node, whether a corresponding row of the database registered as a target has been updated by a different write set; and aborting the write set when the update has been performed, and updating the database of the higher-level master node using the shadow copy when the update has not been performed.