US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Performance of row table to columnar table replication" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,364, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performance of row table to columnar table replication" was invented by Xue Bo (ChangPing district, China), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing), He Fang Zhang (Beijing), Yu Liu (Beijing) and Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. Statistics for each columnar table are extracted from an online analytical processing (OLAP) database catalog. A transaction table map is created from transaction log records of an online transaction processing (OLTP) database. The transactio...