Time Travel for Iceberg Tables in Presto

Introduction Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, excels at querying large data sets distributed across diverse data sources. It has maintained its position as a high-performance data analytics tool for over a decade. As data collection capabilities expand, businesses increasingly recognize the importance of historical data alongside current data. With the recent release of…

RaptorX: Building a 10X Faster Presto

RaptorX is an internal project name aiming to boost query latency significantly beyond what vanilla Presto is capable of. This blog post introduces the hierarchical cache work, which is the key building block for RaptorX. With the support of the cache, we are able to boost query performance by 10X. This new architecture can beat…