ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,731, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Cloud database storage system" was invented by Ivan Schreter (Malsch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include storage of database table shards on a plurality of storage nodes. Each shard may be stored as multiple replicas, where each replica of a given shard is stored on a different storage node. In case of a failure of a given storage node, all shard replicas which were stored on the given storage node are copied from other storage nodes to new or existing storage nodes. A storage node may store shards of database tables associated with m...