MongoDB Assigned Patent

MongoDB, Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (11,288,282) developed by Bostic, Keith, Lincoln, MA, Cahill, Michael, Summer Hill, AU, Horowitz, Eliot, New York, NY, Pasette, Dan, Brooklyn, NY, Stearn, Mathias, New York, NY, and Bosch, Geert, Brooklyn, NY, for “distributed database systems and methods with pluggable storage engines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “According to one aspect, methods and systems are provided for selectively employing storage engines in a distributed database environment. The methods and systems can include a processor configured to execute a plurality of system components, wherein the system components comprise an operation prediction component configured to determine an expected set of operations to be performed on a portion of the database, a data format selection component configured to select, based on at least one characteristic of the expected set of operations, a data format for the portion of the database, and at least one storage engine for writing the portion of the database in the selected data format.”

The patent application was filed on March 6, 2019 (16/294,227).