US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Runtime join pruning to improve join performance for tables" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,258, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Runtime join pruning to improve join performance for tables" was invented by Dimitrios Tsirogiannis (Belmont, Calif.) and Zhaohui Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query, the query including a statement for performing a join operation on a first table and a second table. The subject technology executes, by an execution node using a generated query plan, the query. The subject technology performs, during execution of the query by the execution node, a runtime range pruning process. The subject technology ...