ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,230, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Regatta Data Ltd. (Bet Hanania, Israel).
"Mechanisms for efficient cleaning of unneeded row-versions of a database" was invented by Erez Webman (Petach Tikva, Israel), Irit Yadin-Lempel (Caesarea, Israel), Eran Borovik (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel) and Hilla Atzmon (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning unneeded row-versions in a distributed database system including a plurality of nodes are provided. The method comprising: receiving, by a node of the plurality of nodes, a stream of at least Point-in-Time (PiT) creation events and PiT removal events; receiving a list of...