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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Benoit Dageville, San Mateo, CA (US);
Yi Fang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Martin Hentschel, Berlin, DE;
Ashish Motivala, Foster City, CA (US);
Spyridon Triantafyllis, Belmont, CA (US);
Yizhi Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject technology generates a first data structure including first metadata and a second data structure including second metadata, the first metadata corresponding to a set of micro-partitions, the second metadata for a grouping of the first metadata, the second data structure including information associating the second metadata to the first metadata. The subject technology stores the first data structure and the second data structure in storage as a first file and a second file. The subject technology stores third metadata for a table, the third metadata comprising: cumulative table metadata comprising global information about a plurality of micro-partitions of the table, the cumulative table metadata being stored in a metadata micro-partition associated with the table.