US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 29 for "Optimize in-memory column store for mixed workloads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,806, issued on April 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Optimize in-memory column store for mixed workloads" was invented by Mahendra Maiti (Fremont, Calif.), Hariharan Lakshmanan (Brisbane, Calif.) and Shasank Kisan Chavan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining an optimal configuration for an in-memory store based on both benefits and overhead that would result from having database elements populated in the in-memory store. The techniques include determining an overhead-adjusted benefit score for each element based, at least in part, on (a) a s...