US Patent 7987181 System and method for directing query traffic

A system and method for directing query traffic. In one embodiment, the system may include a plurality of query servers, each configured to evaluate queries, and a query traffic director. The query traffic director may be configured to receive a given query formulated in a query language for evaluation, to parse the given query, to identify a dataset targeted by the given query dependent upon parsing the given query, and to convey the given query to a particular query server dependent upon the identified dataset.