ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,411, issued on July 29, was assigned to CLOUDERA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Snapshots of a column store" was invented by Todd Lipcon (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Columnar storage provides many performance and space saving benefits for analytic workloads, but previous mechanisms for handling single row update transactions in column stores suffer from poor performance. A columnar data layout facilitates both low-latency random access capabilities together with high-throughput analytical access capabilities, simplifying Hadoop architectures for use cases involving real-time data. In disclosed embodiments, systems may ...