US Patent 11074261 Format independent processing for distributed data

Data processing engines implement format independent data processing for distributed data in local and remote data stores. Requests execute at least a portion of an access request are received from a data processing engine that does not support a data format for data stored in a data store. The data format for the data is identified and the data accessed according to the identified data format. The portion of the access request is applied to the accessed data in order to generate results. The generated results for the portion of the access request are then sent to the data processing engine.