US Patent Issued to Teradata US on Dec. 23 for "Correlation-driven query optimization for cloud-based stores" (California, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,118, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).

"Correlation-driven query optimization for cloud-based stores" was invented by Mohamed Ahmed Yassin Eltabakh (Worcester, Mass.), Mohammed Al-Kateb (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.), Sanjay Nair (El Segundo, Calif.) and Awny Kayed Al-Omari (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for optimizing a query in a relational database management system (RDBMS) when a predicate on a data column in the query has a correlation to a partitioning attribute of a partitioning column in data retrieved from a cloud-based store, wherein the optimizing us...