US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Nov. 11 for "Schema evolution support in hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,673, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Schema evolution support in hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads" was invented by Cristian Diaconu (Kirkland, Wash.), Chen Luo (San Mateo, Calif.), Corbin McElhanney (San Mateo, Calif.) and Wumengjian Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a request to perform a table scan operation of a table. The subject technology determines that the table is being accessed for an initial time. The subject technology populates a columnar cache with data of the table provided by the table scan operation. Th...