US Patent Issued to Databricks on Jan. 28 for "Short query prioritization for data processing service" (Dutch, American, Unknown Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,521, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Short query prioritization for data processing service" was invented by Venkata Sai Akhil Gudesa (Amsterdam), Herman Rudolf Petrus Catharina van Hovell tot Westerflier (Willemstad) and Supun Chathuranga Nakandala (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster computing system maintains a first set of queues for short queries and a set second set for longer queries. The first set is allocated a majority of the cluster's processing resources and processes queries on a first in first out basis. The second set is allocated a minority of the cluster's proc...