Patent 11204900 was granted and assigned to Oracle on December, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are provided for creating, organizing, and maintaining a sharded database. A sharded database can be created using user-defined sharding, system-managed sharding, or composite sharding. The sharded database is implemented with relational database techniques. The techniques described can be used to route database requests and process queries in a sharded database.