US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 18 for "Workload-aware data placement advisor for OLAP database systems" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,135, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Workload-aware data placement advisor for OLAP database systems" was invented by Urvashi Oswal (Fremont, Calif.), Jian Wen (Hollis, N.H.), Farhan Tauheed (Zurich), Onur Kocberber (Thalwil, Switzerland), Seema Sundara (Nashua, N.H.) and Nipun Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments implement a prediction-driven, rather than a trial-driven, approach to automatic data placement recommendations for partitioning data across multiple nodes in a database system. The system is configured to extract workload-specific feat...