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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2021
Kinaxis Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Robert N. Walker, Ashton, CA;
James R. Crozman, Ottawa, CA;
Jansen Donald Kray, Ottawa, CA;
Mosa To Fung Yeung, Ottawa, CA;
James Gordon Dagg, Almonte, CA;
Kinaxis Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
The systems and methods described here can reduce the storage space required (memory and/or disk) to store certain types of data, provide efficient (fast) creation, modification and retrieval of such data, and support such data within the framework of a multi-version database. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can store each field of a set of records as a vector of values, e.g., a data vector. A set of records can be represented using a vector id vector, or 'vid' vector, wherein each element of the vid vector contains a reference to the memory location of a data vector. A header table can store associations between labels and “vid” vectors that pertain to those labels. Identical data vectors can be re-used between different record sets or vid vectors needing that vector, thus saving space.