Garth A. Dickie

Data Compression Utilizing Variable and Limited Length Codes

Compression-aware partial sort of streaming columnar data

Hierarchical data compression and computation

Merging metadata for database storage regions based on overlapping range values

Minimizing index maintenance costs for database storage regions using hybrid zone maps and indices

Hardware acceleration for a compressed computation database

Compression of integer data using a common divisor

Early exit from table scans of loosely ordered and/or grouped relations using nearly ordered maps

REPRESENTING AN OUTLIER VALUE IN A NON-NULLABLE COLUMN AS NULL IN METADATA

QUERY OPTIMIZATION WITH ZONE MAP SELECTIVITY MODELING