ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,000, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cockroach Labs Inc. (New York).
"Systems and methods for locality-aware query optimization" was invented by Rebecca Taft (Chicago), Mark Sirek (San Diego) and Andrew E. Kimball (Moraga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for locality-aware query planning in a distributed computing system are provided. A query is received from a client device at a gateway node geographically located in a first database region. A plurality of query plans for execution of the query are generated at the gateway node. A first query plan of the query plans is configured to cause communication bet...