Amazon.com, Inc.
Determining indexing progress for a table in a distributed data store

Abstract:

A distributed data storage system may implement determining indexing progress for a table stored in the distributed data storage system. A table may be stored in multiple table partitions. When a secondary index is created for the table, each partition may independently index the items stored within the table partition in order to identify those items in the partition that should be stored in the secondary index. During creation of the secondary index, creation progress points that indicate the progress of the indexing across the table partitions may be determined. The creation progress points may be provided via a programmatic, textual, or graphical interface to the distributed data storage system.