US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 23 for "Hash-join broadcast decision making in database systems" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,302, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Hash-join broadcast decision making in database systems" was invented by Matthias Carl Adams (Berlin), Sebastian BreB (Berlin), Bjoern Daase (Berlin), Moritz Eyssen (Berlin), Florian Andreas Funke (Berlin), Max Heimel (Berlin) and Georg Ortwin Otto Kissig (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for hash-join broadcast decision making. For example, a method includes generating a query plan for a received query. The query plan includes a plurality of join operations with a plurality of hash-join-build (HJB) operations a...