Patent 9330143 was granted and assigned to Western Digital on May, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed herein are data storage device embodiments for accelerating database operations and associated methods. In one embodiment, the data storage device includes a controller; an array of one or more solid-state memory storage devices; a first memory for storing processor executable instructions associated with database operations; and a second memory for storing data related to the database operations; wherein the controller is configured to execute the instructions to: cause data to be read from the solid-state memory storage devices into the second memory; determine whether the data match a query specified by the instructions; and perform a database operation based on the query match determination.