Patent Document ID: 9836513
Application ID: 13418055

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: storing a query result relation resulting from a producer query as a local cached page in a query processor buffer pool of a first query processor, wherein the query result relation comprises a plurality of tuples returned by the producer query, wherein the plurality of tuples comprise data values from a first column of a first database table, wherein the query processor buffer pool is to store a plurality of local cached pages, wherein each of the plurality of local cached pages is a fixed-length binary page identified by a local tag; sending, using a binary protocol, the local cached page to a distributed caching platform (DCP) to be shared as an external cached page, wherein the external cached page is visible as a data source of another query, wherein the DCP is distributed over multiple nodes, wherein the external cached page is identified by an external key that includes different data from the local tag; reading, using the binary protocol, the external cached page by a second query processor based on the external key; and converting the external cached page to the plurality of tuples for use by a consumer query.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein reading the external cached page by a second query processor comprises using a plurality of master keys for the query result relation.