Snowflake inc. (20240411812). ACCESSING DATA USING A USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF)

ACCESSING DATA USING A USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF)

Organization Name

snowflake inc.

Inventor(s)

Elliott Brossard of Kirkland WA (US)

Sukruth Komarla Sukumar of Bellevue WA (US)

Isaac Kunen of Seattle WA (US)

Ju-yi Kuo of Sammamish WA (US)

Jonathan Lee Leang of Seattle WA (US)

Edward Ma of San Jose CA (US)

Schuyler James Manchester of San Jose CA (US)

Polita Paulus of Kirkland WA (US)

Saurin Shah of Kirkland WA (US)

Igor Zinkovsky of Redmond WA (US)

ACCESSING DATA USING A USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF)

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240411812 titled 'ACCESSING DATA USING A USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF)

Original Abstract Submitted

a method to access data includes generating, by at least one hardware processor, a user-defined function (udf). the udf includes a file reference object corresponding to at least one file and a file operation configuration. the at least one file is retrieved based on a udf call into the udf. the retrieving is further based on the file reference object. a compression status of the at least one file is determined. the udf call is processed to generate result data using the at least one file. the processing of the udf call is based on the compression status and the file operation configuration.