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Niranjan Nilakantan
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 17
Citations - 1627
Niranjan Nilakantan is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Distributed data store & Partition (database). The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 17 publications receiving 1559 citations.
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Windows Azure Storage: a highly available cloud storage service with strong consistency
Brad Calder,Ju Wang,Aaron W. Ogus,Niranjan Nilakantan,Arild E. Skjolsvold,Sam McKelvie,Yikang Xu,Shashwat Srivastav,Jiesheng Wu,Huseyin Simitci,Jaidev Haridas,Chakravarthy Uddaraju,Hemal Khatri,Andrew James Edwards,Vaman Bedekar,Mainali Shane Kumar,Rafay Abbasi,Arpit Agarwal,Mian Fahim ul Haq,Muhammad Ikram ul Haq,Deepali Bhardwaj,Sowmya Dayanand,Anitha Adusumilli,Marvin McNett,Sriram Sankaran,Kavitha Manivannan,Leonidas Rigas +26 more
TL;DR: The WAS architecture, global namespace, and data model is described, as well as its resource provisioning, load balancing, and replication systems.
Patent
Partition management in a partitioned, scalable, and available structured storage
Bradley Gene Calder,Ju Wang,Arild E. Skjolsvold,Shashwat Srivastav,Niranjan Nilakantan,Deepali Bhardwaj +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a table is partitioned into a number of partitions, each partition including a contiguous range of rows, and the partitions are served by table servers and managed by a table master.
Patent
System and method for preference application installation and execution
Robert H. Gerber,Holly Knight,Murali M. Krishna,Niranjan Nilakantan,Shahaf Abileah,Shyamalan Pather +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a system for personalizing computer functionality by using a plurality of simple IF-THEN propositional logic, which is then transformed into queries and executed efficiently on structured data.
Patent
System and way of installation and execution of application programs of preferences
Robert H. Gerber,Najt Kholli,Murali M. Krishna,Niranjan Nilakantan,Abilea Shakhaf,Patkher Sh Jamalan +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a tool for simple writing of the manifold text and difficult preferences, for example, with use of set of simple logic of statements IF-THEN is given to end users.
Patent
Asynchronous replication in a distributed storage environment
Bradley Gene Calder,Niranjan Nilakantan,Shashwat Srivastav,Jiesheng Wu,Abdul Rafay Abbasi,Mainali Shane Kumar,Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an approach to asynchronously replicating data in a distributed computing environment, where data received at a primary data store may be annotated with information, such as an identifier of the data.