Storing Data in Predicted Formats

A signal-bearing medium encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions when executed on a processor comprise:

• receiving a first request from a requestor, wherein the first request comprises first data and a specification of a store operation, a first key, and a local database;
• determining a predicted format for the first data based on a type of the requester and a mode of the local database, wherein the mode is selected from a group consisting of a primary database and a replica database;
• if the predicted format is a relational format, storing the first data into the local database in the relational format;
• and
• if a most-frequently predicted historical format, for a plurality of historical requests that comprised a same key as the first key, is the relational format, storing the first data into the local database in the relational format.

A computer system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• memory connected to the processor, wherein the memory encodes instructions that when executed by the processor comprise:
• receiving a first request from a requestor, wherein the first request comprises first data and a specification of a store operation, a first key, and a local database,
• determining a predicted format for the first data based on a type of the requestor and a mode of the local database, wherein the mode is selected from a group consisting of a primary database and a replica database,
• if the predicted format is a relational format, storing the first data into the local database in the relational format,
• if a most-frequently predicted historical format, for a plurality of historical requests that comprised a same key as the first key, is the relational format, storing the first data into the local database in the relational format, and
• if both the predicted format and the most-frequently predicted historical format are an object format, storing the first data into the local database in the object format.