Cloudera Assigned Patent

Cloudera, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,003,642) developed by Lipcon, Todd, San Francisco, CA, for “mutations in a column store.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Columnar storage provides many performance and space saving benefits for analytic workloads, but previous mechanisms for handling single row update transactions in column stores suffer from poor performance. A columnar data layout facilitates both low-latency random access capabilities together with high-throughput analytical access capabilities, simplifying Hadoop architectures for use cases involving real-time data. In disclosed embodiments, mutations within a single row are executed atomically across columns and do not necessarily include the entirety of a row. This allows for faster updates without the overhead of reading or rewriting larger columns.”

The patent application was filed on January 26, 2018 (Appl. No.15/881,541).