A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SHARDING

摘要

When handling a request for data of at least one key: - providing this request to a predetermined shard store; - this predetermined shard store verifying, by means of its local subrange collection, whether this at least one key is present in a local subrange of a shard stored on this predetermined shard store; and - when at least one key is not present in a local subrange of a shard stored on this predetermined shard store, returning a message comprising the local subrange collection of this predetermined shard store.