US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Jan. 20 for "Probe-side annotated join decision making" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,354, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Probe-side annotated join decision making" was invented by Matthias Carl Adams (Berlin), Bowei Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Bjoern Daase (Berlin), Florian Andreas Funke (Berlin) and Yi Pan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A join decision manager (JDM) generates a data processing pipeline. The data processing pipeline includes at least one join operation associated with build-side row data and probe-side row data. The JDM determines the maximum cardinality associated with the probe-side row data. The JDM determines size of the build-side row data at...