US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 15 for "Elastic columnar cache for cloud databases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,297, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Elastic columnar cache for cloud databases" was invented by Anjan Kumar Amirishetty (Freemont, Calif.), Xun Cheng (Dublin, Calif.) and Viral Shah (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing elastic columnar cache includes receiving cache configuration information indicating a maximum size and an incremental size for a cache associated with a user. The cache is configured to store a portion of a table in a row-major format. The method includes caching, in a column-major format, a subset of the plurality of columns of the tab...