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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2021
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Benoit Dageville, Foster City, CA (US);
Thierry Cruanes, San Mateo, CA (US);
Marcin Zukowski, San Mateo, CA (US);
Allison Waingold Lee, San Carlos, CA (US);
Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner, Belmont, CA (US);
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components. An example method includes: receiving a relational join query for a join operation associated with a first relation and a second relation; generating at least one build operator and at least one probe operator to perform build operations and probe operations, respectively, of the join operation; and managing a state of one or more communication links between the at least one build operator and the at least one probe operator based on a size of the second relation as determined by the at least one build operator and an estimated size of the first relation.