US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 1 for "Fast and memory efficient in-memory columnar graph updates while preserving analytical performance" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,823, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Fast and memory efficient in-memory columnar graph updates while preserving analytical performance" was invented by Damien Hilloulin (Zurich), Vasileios Trigonakis (Zurich), Alexander Weld (Mountain View, Calif.), Valentin Venzin (Zurich), Sungpack Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hassan Chafi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for updating in-memory property graphs in a fast manner, while minimizing memory consumption. A graph is represented as delta compressed sparse rows (CSR), in which its data structur...