Patent ID: 8504522

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions executable by computer, the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising: in said plurality of instructions, instructions to automatically traverse a network interconnecting a set of relational databases in a distributed database system, to identify a plurality of paths, at least a path in the plurality of paths starting in a source database in the set and ending in a destination database in the set, each relational database in the set being controlled by a local database management server (DBMS) cooperating with at least another DBMS to maintain overall consistency of data stored by the distributed database system, each DBMS being responsive to queries in a relational database language, each relational database in the set comprising data accessible via the queries; in said plurality of instructions, instructions to at least one processor to automatically obtain a group of statistics on performance of a plurality of components in the distributed database system by querying at least the source database and the destination database; wherein the plurality of components comprises at least a first database process of the source database and a second database process of the destination database; and in said plurality of instructions, instructions to automatically store in a non-volatile memory, statistics in the group associated with the path, and at least an indication of the path.