Patents by Inventor Serge Bourbonnais

Serge Bourbonnais has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12561341
    Abstract: A computing system performs real-time replication of database management system transactions. The computing system includes a source DBMS, a replication service and a data lakehouse. The source DBMS stores at least one source transaction table recording at least one source transaction and generates at least one recovery log indicating at least one modification in the at least one source transaction table. The replication service replicates the at least one source transaction recorded in the at least one source transaction table by generating at least one data file having a first data format. The data lakehouse stores at least one lakehouse table corresponding to the at least one source transaction table and having a second data format different from the first data format, and to modify the at least one lakehouse table based on the at least one data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin Franky Manuel D'costa, Weiqiang Zhuang, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Daniel Waddington, Saransh Gupta
  • Publication number: 20250371029
    Abstract: A computing system performs real-time replication of database management system transactions. The computing system includes a source DBMS, a replication service and a data lakehouse. The source DBMS stores at least one source transaction table recording at least one source transaction and generates at least one recovery log indicating at least one modification in the at least one source transaction table. The replication service replicates the at least one source transaction recorded in the at least one source transaction table by generating at least one data file having a first data format. The data lakehouse stores at least one lakehouse table corresponding to the at least one source transaction table and having a second data format different from the first data format, and to modify the at least one lakehouse table based on the at least one data file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin Franky, Manuel D'costa, Weiqiang Zhuang, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Daniel Waddington, Saransh Gupta
  • Patent number: 12056153
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product is provided. The method includes identifying a large statement, writing rows that are changed by the large statement into a set of files outside a database management system recovery log, and writing log records for the set of files to the database management system recovery log, such that the log records provide ordering of row changes made by the large statement. The log records include a log sequence number corresponding to a first row changed and a format and encoding used for the row changes. The method further includes streaming, by the one or more processors of the computer system, the set of files out-of-band by a replication capture process to a target database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin D'Costa, Roger Zheng, Christian Zentgraf, David Mooney
  • Patent number: 11455217
    Abstract: Transaction consistency query support is available for replicated data from recovery log to external data stores. An external data store is populated with records using entries of a change data table. The change data table has entries for each transaction that has committed and is to be replicated, and each of the entries stores information for each log entry in a recovery log from a database management system. Each log entry identifies a transactional change of data and a transaction completion indicator of one of commit and abort. In response to receiving a query about a transaction of the transactions, a set of records are retrieved from the external data store for the transaction. From the set of records, records whose sequence identifier values are larger than a maximum transaction commit sequence identifier are removed. From the set of records, remaining records having transaction consistency are returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin F. M. D'Costa, Yat On Lau, Xiao Li, Hong Min, Gong Su, Jonathan W. Wierenga, Christian Zentgraf, Kan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11442823
    Abstract: Transaction consistency query support is available for replicated data from recovery log to external data stores. An external data store is populated with records using entries of a change data table. The change data table has entries for each transaction that has committed and is to be replicated, and each of the entries stores information for each log entry in a recovery log from a database management system. Each log entry identifies a transactional change of data and a transaction completion indicator of one of commit and abort. In response to receiving a query about a transaction of the transactions, a set of records are retrieved from the external data store for the transaction. From the set of records, records whose sequence identifier values are larger than a maximum transaction commit sequence identifier are removed. From the set of records, remaining records having transaction consistency are returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin F. M. D'Costa, Yat On Lau, Xiao Li, Hong Min, Gong Su, Jonathan W. Wierenga, Christian Zentgraf, Kan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220171791
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product is provided. The method includes identifying a large statement, writing rows that are changed by the large statement into a set of files outside a database management system recovery log, and writing log records for the set of files to the database management system recovery log, such that the log records provide ordering of row changes made by the large statement. The log records include a log sequence number corresponding to a first row changed and a format and encoding used for the row changes. The method further includes streaming, by the one or more processors of the computer system, the set of files out-of-band by a replication capture process to a target database management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin D'costa, Roger Zheng, Christian Zentgraf, David Mooney
  • Patent number: 11308119
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product is provided. The method includes identifying a large statement, writing the rows that are changed by the large statement into a set of files outside a database management system recovery log, and writing log records for the set of files to the database management system recovery log, such that the log records provide ordering of row changes made by the large statement. The log records include a log sequence number corresponding to a first row changed and a format and encoding used for the row changes. The method further includes streaming, by the one or more processors of the computer system, the set of files out-of-band by a replication capture process to a target database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin D'costa, Roger Zheng, Christian Zentgraf, David Mooney
  • Patent number: 11249815
    Abstract: A system for maintaining a two-site configuration for continuous availability over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with a priority workload, the first instance being designated as an active instance; a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, the second instance being designated as a standby instance; a software replication module configured to replicate a unit of work data associated with the priority workload from a first data object associated with the active instance to a second data object associated with the standby instance, and a hardware replication module configured to replicate an image from a first storage volume to a copy on a second storage volume, wherein the first storage volume is associated with the first computing site, and the second storage volume is associated with a third computing site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Paul M. Cadarette, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, David B. Petersen, Gregory W. Vance
  • Patent number: 11157518
    Abstract: Systems for replication group partitioning include a workload profiling module configured to analyze historical workload data for a plurality of data elements to identify and categorize one or more transaction patterns; and a recommendation module configured to generate a recommended partitioning of the plurality of data elements into one or more replication groups, based on the one or more transaction patterns, that are optimized toward a partitioning goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, You-Chin Fuh, Yi Jin, Xiao Li, Hong Min, Miao Zheng
  • Patent number: 11151164
    Abstract: Methods and systems for replication group partitioning include analyzing historical workload data for a plurality of data elements to generate one or more transaction patterns and generating a recommended partitioning of the plurality of data elements into one or more replication groups, based on the one or more transaction patterns, that are optimized toward a partitioning goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, You-Chin Fuh, Yi Jin, Xiao Li, Hong Min, Miao Zheng
  • Patent number: 10970266
    Abstract: A method includes reading, by a capture engine, log data. The log data can be synchronously hardware-replicated. The log data reflects that an update was started for a database of a first site. The capture engine corresponds to a capture engine of a second site. The method also includes identifying, by the capture engine, the update. The method also includes determining whether the update was committed to the database of the first site. The method also includes replicating, by an apply engine, the update to a database of the second site based on the determining. The update is replicated to the database of the second site based on a determination that the update was committed to the database of the first site. The committed update corresponds to a consistent replication of updates across two or more databases that reside in multiple database management systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Paul Cadarette, David A. Clitherow, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Pamela McLean, David Petersen, John G. Thompson, Gregory W. Vance
  • Publication number: 20210096959
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a continuous availability for workload and site switches with no data loss at unlimited distances in an active-active sites configuration. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes synchronously replicating commit records of changed workload data, by a processor, from an active site to a bunker site upon a workload data commit. The method asynchronously replicates committed transactions on changed workload data, by the processor, from the bunker site to a recovery site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: David PETERSEN, Paul M. CADARETTE, Serge BOURBONNAIS, Michael Gerard FITZPATRICK, John Simon TILLING, Pamela L. MCLEAN, Gregory Walter VANCE, Matthew J. WARD, Theresa Mary BROWN, Nicolas Marc CLAYTON, Wei LIU, Hua ZHU, Xing Jun ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10956403
    Abstract: A method for verifying data consistency between update-in-place data structures and append-only data structures containing change histories associated with the update-in-place data structures is provided. The method includes loading data from an update-in-place data structure to a first set of hash buckets in a processing platform, loading data from append-only data structures to a second set of hash buckets in the processing platform, performing a bucket-level comparison between the data in the first set of hash buckets and the data in the second set of has buckets, and generating a report based on the bucket-level comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Si Bin Fan, Xiao Li, Jonathan W. Wierenga, Mai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10902015
    Abstract: Several replication subscriptions are defined for a table in a database management system. The table is divided into partitions. Each replication subscription replicates transactions to a range of partitions. Subscriptions are assignable to different consistency groups. Transaction consistency is preserved at the consistency group level. A persistent delay table is created for each of several apply functions. Each apply function processes replication subscriptions for one consistency group, to replicate the table to a target table in parallel. Transactions for a given range of a partition are executed in parallel. When an apply function upon a row of the target table results in an error, the row is stored in the delay table. Application of each row in the delay table is repeatedly retried, and if successful, the row is removed from the delay table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin F. M. D'Costa, Xiao Li, Jonathan W. Wierenga, Xin Wu, Christian Zentgraf, Xiang W. Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200175034
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product is provided. The method includes identifying a large statement, writing the rows that are changed by the large statement into a set of files outside a database management system recovery log, and writing log records for the set of files to the database management system recovery log, such that the log records provide ordering of row changes made by the large statement. The log records include a log sequence number corresponding to a first row changed and a format and encoding used for the row changes. The method further includes streaming, by the one or more processors of the computer system, the set of files out-of-band by a replication capture process to a target database management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Austin D'costa, Roger Zheng, Christian Zentgraf, David Mooney
  • Publication number: 20200034210
    Abstract: A system for maintaining a two-site configuration for continuous availability over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with a priority workload, the first instance being designated as an active instance; a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, the second instance being designated as a standby instance; a software replication module configured to replicate a unit of work data associated with the priority workload from a first data object associated with the active instance to a second data object associated with the standby instance, and a hardware replication module configured to replicate an image from a first storage volume to a copy on a second storage volume, wherein the first storage volume is associated with the first computing site, and the second storage volume is associated with a third computing site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Paul M. Cadarette, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, David B. Petersen, Gregory W. Vance
  • Publication number: 20200026786
    Abstract: A method for resynchronizing at least one batch job is provided. The method may include detecting a type of region switch request. The method may further include stopping execution workloads on a primary system based on the switch request. The method may further include suspending software and hardware data replication from the primary system to the secondary system. The method may further utilizing proxy replication engine to determine a point-in-time (PIT) at which the execution is stopped and the suspension. The method may also include switching the replication of the software and hardware data to occur the secondary system to the primary system. The method may further include synchronizing the software and hardware data up to the determined point-in-time (PIT). The method may also include activating the execution of the plurality of workloads on the secondary system based on the determined point-in-time (PIT), switching, and synchronizing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Paul M. Cadarette, David B. Petersen, Serge Bourbonnais, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Pamela L. McLean, John G. Thompson, Gregory W. Vance, David A. Clitherow
  • Patent number: 10482104
    Abstract: A system for providing continuous availability comprises a second computing site that is geographically remote from a first computing site. The second computing site comprises a storage unit configured to store units of work data and data synchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a group of workloads configured to process the units of work data asynchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a software replication module configured not to replicate any data while the first computing site is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Jing Cheng, You-Chin Fuh, David B. Petersen, James Z. Teng, Hong Jing Ying, Miao Zheng
  • Patent number: 10474694
    Abstract: A system for providing continuous availability comprises a second computing site that is geographically remote from a first computing site. The second computing site comprises a storage unit configured to store units of work data and data synchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a group of workloads configured to process the units of work data asynchronously replicated from the first computing site. The second computing site further comprises a software replication module configured not to replicate any data while the first computing site is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Jing Cheng, You-Chin Fuh, David B. Petersen, James Z. Teng, Hong Jing Ying, Miao Zheng
  • Publication number: 20190163776
    Abstract: A method includes reading, by a capture engine, log data. The log data can be synchronously hardware-replicated. The log data reflects that an update was started for a database of a first site. The capture engine corresponds to a capture engine of a second site. The method also includes identifying, by the capture engine, the update. The method also includes determining whether the update was committed to the database of the first site. The method also includes replicating, by an apply engine, the update to a database of the second site based on the determining. The update is replicated to the database of the second site based on a determination that the update was committed to the database of the first site. The committed update corresponds to a consistent replication of updates across two or more databases that reside in multiple database management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Serge Bourbonnais, Paul Cadarette, David A. Clitherow, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Pamela McLean, David Petersen, John G. Thompson, Gregory W. Vance