US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on May 26 for "Spilling a hash set structure to disk in conjunction with executing a set operation via a database system" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,302, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Spilling a hash set structure to disk in conjunction with executing a set operation via a database system" was invented by Ellis Mihalko Saupe (University City, Mo.) and Andrew Park (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to, in response to the spill to disk condition being met, spill a hash set structure to disk based on partitioning a set of hash values of the hash set structure into a plurality of hash buckets written to disk memory resources. Each of a remaining incoming subset of input rows of a plurality of input rows a...