IBM joins the Presto Foundation through acquisition of Ahana

Today we’re thrilled to share that IBM has acquired Ahana, the venture-backed SaaS for Presto startup company, and we want to write more about our belief in Open Source and why IBM and Ahana are joining forces for the benefit of Presto. We believe that this is an exciting time for the Presto project. We’re…

Using OptimizedTypedSet to Improve Map and Array Functions

Function evaluation is a big part of projection CPU cost. Recently we optimized a set of functions that use TypedSet, e.g. map_concat, array_union, array_intersect, and array_except. By introducing a new OptimizedTypeSet, the above functions saw improvements in several dimensions: Furthermore, OptimizedTypeSet resolves the long standing issue of throwing EXCEEDED_FUNCTION_MEMORY_LIMIT for large incoming blocks: “The input…