ASSIGNMENT OF OBJECTS TO PROCESSING ENGINES FOR EFFICIENT DATABASE OPERATIONS

In some examples, a system stores data in a logically disconnected data store. In response to a query for data in the data store, the system accesses metadata of objects stored in the data store, the metadata including information of a respective range of values of at least one clustering attribute in data contained in each respective object of the objects. The system partitions the objects across the plurality of processing engines based on the information of the respective ranges of values of the at least one clustering attribute in the data contained in the objects. The system assigns, based on the partitioning, the objects to respective processing engines of the plurality of processing engines.