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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2024
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Bowei Chen, San Bruno, CA (US);
Alice Liu, Waterloo, CA;
Corbin Mcelhanney, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eric Alan Musser, Redwood City, CA (US);
Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US);
Abstract
Various example embodiments described herein provide for systems, methods, devices, instructions, and the like for optimizing a query plan to execute a query by pushing down top-k information in the query plan, which can be used within a data platform (e.g., database) environment. In particular, various example embodiments enable information from a top-k operator of a query plan to be pushed down the query plan and enable pushing the information through one or more outer join operators (e.g., through multiple levels of outer join operators) of the query plan to a select operator, such as an aggregation operator, positioned below the one or more outer join operators.