US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Oct. 14 for "Columnar cache in hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads" (Washington, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,618, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Columnar cache in hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads" was invented by Mihir Dharamshi (Redmond, Wash.), Cristian Diaconu (Kirkland, Wash.), Chen Luo (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrew McCormick (San Francisco), Corbin McElhanney (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Slocum (Austin, Texas) and Wumengjian Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, by an execution node, blob metadata from a key-value store, the blob metadata including information related to a set of blob files. The subject technology determines, ...