Archiving and querying data updates associated with an electronic catalog system

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for archiving and querying data updates received or generated by an update processing system associated with an electronic catalog. In some embodiments, item data updates associated with items represented in an electronic catalog are formed into new objects consisting of collections of records of item data updates. The new objects may have keys and versions associated with each record within them. The use of these objects allows item data updates, which are generally on the order of a few kilobytes, to be efficiently stored in archive storage systems, and to be queried without affecting the performance of the system that hosts the electronic catalog.