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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2020
Sap SE, Walldorf, DE;
Dan Bi Park, Seoul, KR;
Jung Kook Lee, Vancouver, CA;
Sung Heun Wi, West Vancouver, CA;
Sang Il Song, Kirkland, WA (US);
SAP SE, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for calculating, for each operator in a set of operators, a set of costs, each cost associated with a data format and including a first segment indicating a cost of an operator to convert an incoming data format to an access format and a second segment indicating a cost based on a set of costs of one or more ancestors of the operator, a conversion cost, and a materialization cost, indicating, along the path within the query plan, a location representing execution of a conversion from a first data format to a second data format, the location being selected based on the sets of costs, and providing the query plan with the location for execution to generate a query result, wherein during execution of the query plan, conversion of data from the first data format to the second data format occurs at the location.