INTEGRATED SEARCH FOR SHARED STORAGE USING INDEX THROTTLING TO MAINTAIN QUALITY OF SERVICE

摘要

A method of searching shared files stored on a shared storage includes providing a search functionality in the shared storage having a set of search indexes to perform a search based on a search term; providing an event stream of update events associated with the shared files in the shared storage; processing the event stream to generate a processed event stream; and responding to update events in the processed event stream by indexing files referenced in the update events in the processed event stream where the indexing is performed to maintain a predetermined level of quality of service at the shared storage.

主权项

1. A method of searching shared files stored on a shared storage comprising:
providing a search functionality in the shared storage, the search functionality having a set of search indexes to perform a search based on a search term; providing an event stream of update events associated with the shared files in the shared storage, wherein the update events comprise file update events, which include file modification and file creation, and file deletion events; processing the event stream by performing event filtering, event compression and de-duplication on the stream of update events to generate a processed event stream; and responding to update events in the processed event stream by throttling the indexing of files referenced in the update events in the processed event stream to maintain a predetermined level of quality of service at the shared storage.