ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,390, issued on April 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Multi-cluster warehouse" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Florian Andreas Funke (San Francisco) and Peter Povinec (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implementing a fault-tolerant data warehouse including allocating a plurality of processing units to a data warehouse, the processing units located in different availability zones, an availability zone comprising one or more data centers. The method further includes, as a result of monitoring a number of queries running at an inp...