Data Lake Analytics: Alibaba’s Federated Cloud Strategy

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    Presto is known to be a high-performance, distributed SQL query engine for Big Data. It offers large-scale data analytics with multiple connectors for accessing various data sources. This capability enables the Presto users to further extend some features to build a large-scale data federation service on cloud. Alibaba Data Lake Analytics embraces Presto’s federated query…

    Improving Presto Latencies with Alluxio Data Caching

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    The Facebook Presto team has been collaborating with Alluxio on an open source data caching solution for Presto. This is required for multiple Facebook use-cases to improve query latency for queries that scan data from remote sources such as HDFS. We have observed significant improvements in query latencies and IO scans in our experiments. We…