ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,850, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Query acceleration and metadata caching" was invented by Thibaud Hottelier (Seattle), Anoop Kochummen Johnson (Fremont, Calif.), Justin Levandoski (Seattle), Deepak Choudhary Nettem (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuri Volobuev (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a metadata cache for extending data warehouse features to data lakes. The metadata cache can accelerate query execution by directly accessing unmanaged data from the data lake rather than accessing the data through the data warehouse. The metadata c...