International Business Machines Corporation
JOINING REMOTE TABLES BY A FEDERATED SERVER

Abstract:

A system and method of joining remote tables by a federated server is provided. A method includes receiving a data join request from a client device; sending a first block fetch request to a first data source based on the data join request; receiving a first set of block data from the first data source; sending a second block fetch request to a second data source based on the data join request and a bind array containing the data of join column in the first data source; receiving a second set of block data from the second data source; and sending an output to the client device in response to the data join request in the form of rows from an outer table and an inner table.