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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2024
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Aurosish Mishra, Foster City, CA (US);
Shasank Kisan Chavan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shubha Bose, Foster City, CA (US);
Meenakshi Sundaram Arumugam, Belmont, CA (US);
Zhen Hua Liu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tirthankar Lahiri, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Juan R. Loaiza, Woodside, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for flexible specification and storage of objects of the VECTOR type are provided. In one technique, a table specification that specifies a column having a VECTOR data type is received. A first vector that has a first number of dimensions and a first dimension format is stored in the column. A second vector that has a second number of dimensions and a second dimension format is stored in the column. The first number of dimensions is different than the second number of dimensions or the first dimension format is different than the second dimension format.