Archive Replica Packages for Distributed Data Storage Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional data retrieval methods across large distributed systems face high latency and storage overhead due to the need for maintaining multiple data copies, which is costly and inefficient in terms of bandwidth and storage requirements.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of archive replica packages, which are smaller and contain subsets of data, allowing for efficient data replication and search functionality at secondary sites without requiring the entire archive package, thereby reducing storage needs and bandwidth consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional data replication methods are used to distribute data across data centers, then data availability is improved, but storage overhead and bandwidth consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the archive package into multiple segments and distributes them across different data centers. Instead of replicating entire data sets, only necessary segments are transferred and stored at secondary sites, reducing storage overhead while maintaining data availability through segmented distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and transfers only the essential metadata and directory information to secondary data centers, rather than replicating complete archive packages. This extraction approach allows search functionality to be performed locally without requiring full data replication, thereby reducing storage requirements.
2Ease of operation
If complete archive packages are replicated to secondary sites, then search functionality is improved, but bandwidth usage and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the metadata and directory structures from complete archive packages and transfers them to secondary sites. This enables local search operations to be performed on extracted information without requiring the presence of complete archive packages, significantly reducing bandwidth consumption during data distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary metadata layer that sits between the user and the complete archive packages. Search operations are performed on this intermediary metadata at secondary sites, and only when relevant results are found are the actual data segments retrieved, reducing overall bandwidth usage while maintaining search functionality.
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AI summary
A method and system for processing query requests, including receiving, at a secondary site, a query request from a client and executing the query request to obtain an archive replica package (ARP). The method further includes making a determination that a record associated with the ARP is not stored at the secondary site and based on the determination, transmitting a request to a primary site. The method further includes, in response to the request to the primary site, receiving an archive package and a record where the archive package is associated with the record, and providing the first record to the client.