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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Dinesh Das, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jiaqi Yan, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jesse Kamp, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Prashant Gaharwar, San Mateo, CA (US);
Satyanarayana R. Valluri, Batiment, CH;
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for determining costs for alternative execution plans for a query, where at least a portion of the data items required by the query are in in-memory compression-units within volatile memory. The techniques involve maintaining in-memory statistics, such as statistics that indicate what fraction of a table is currently present in in-memory compression units, and the cost of decompressing in-memory compression units. Those statistics are used to determine, for example, the cost of a table scan that retrieves some or all of the necessary data items from the in-memory compression-units.