Snowflake Assigned Patent

Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,628,410) developed by Dageville, Benoit, Hentschel, Martin, and Waddington, William, San Mateo, CA, for a “database metadata in immutable storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for a database system includes storing table data for a database, the table data including information in rows and columns of one or more database tables. The method includes storing metadata on immutable storage, the metadata including information about the table data for the database. In one embodiment, mutable metadata may be periodically consolidated in the background to create new versions of metadata files and which allows for deletions of old metadata files and old data files.”

The patent application was filed on December 11, 2019 (16/710,414).