Optimized storage for measurement data
AssigneeNational Instruments Corporation
InventorsGuy Vachon Laborde, David Mark Pierce, Andreas Peter Haub, Stefan Romainczyk, Helmut J. Helpenstein
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Abstract
A system and method for storing measurements. Each measurement may include bulk data and attribute data. The bulk data and the attribute data may be stored using different storage mechanisms. In one embodiment, relational database technology may be used to store the attribute data. Relational database technology may facilitate querying or searching on the attribute data. The bulk data may be stored in a database specialized for storing bulk data.
Claims29
A method for storing a measurement, the method comprising:
- receiving bulk data associated with the measurement;
- receiving one or more attribute values associated with the measurement;
- storing the bulk data in a first data store;
- and
- storing the one or more attribute values in a second data store;
- wherein the first data store is a different type of data store than the second data store.
A method for storing data, the method comprising:
- receiving the data, wherein a first portion of the data comprises attribute data and a second portion of the data comprises bulk data;
- storing the second portion of the data comprising the bulk data in a first data store;
- and
- storing the first portion of the data comprising the attribute data in a second data store;
- wherein the first data store is a different type of data store than the second data store.
A system comprising:
- a storage for measurement data, wherein the measurement data comprises bulk data and attribute data, and wherein the storage comprises:
- a relational storage for storing the attribute data;
- and
- a compressed real-time storage for storing the bulk data;
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- an interface to the storage, wherein the interface is operable to retrieve one or more units of the bulk data and the attribute data based on a search query submitted to the interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.