ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,887, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Columnar cache query using hybrid query execution plan" was invented by Xiaobin Ma (Fremont, Calif.), Xun Cheng (Dublin, Calif.), Viral Shah (Cupertino, Calif.) and Anjan Kumar Amirishetty (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid query execution plan is generated for executing queries on database systems implementing a columnar cache. A hybrid query execution plan combines a query execution plan for querying and retrieving data from a columnar cache and a base table. A columnar cache stores cached data in column-major format, which is logically...