US Patent 11030186 Incremental refresh of a materialized view

Systems, methods, and devices for incrementally refreshing a materialized view are disclosed. A method includes generating a materialized view based on a source table. The method includes merging the source table and the materialized view to generate a merged table to identify whether an update has been executed on the source table that is not reflected in the materialized view. The method includes, in response to detecting an update made to the source table that is not reflected in the materialized view, applying the update to the materialized view.