US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 24 for "Adaptive scan for hybrid tables" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,629, issued on March 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Adaptive scan for hybrid tables" was invented by Matthew C. Loring (Redwood City, Calif.) and Dimitrios Tsirogiannis (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query. The subject technology performs a secondary index scan operation of a secondary index based on the query. The subject technology determines that a number of rows returned, from the secondary index scan operation, meets a threshold value. The subject technology sends a signal to a primary index probe operation to initiate a blob storage scan using at least o...