ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,824, issued on June 24.
"Append-only optimized database using sorted radix tries" was invented by Kenneth Kinion (Melbourn, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system stores data in sorted radix tries in an append-only, disk-optimized database. Sorted radix tries are one of the most space-efficient ways to store hierarchical data and have excellent storage and access characteristics for enormous sets of keys. The append-only nature of the database makes it ideal for storing huge volumes of generated data, such as IP addresses, DNS data, log messages, activity logs, data measurements, and transaction histories, that are inserted in ...