Quick Stats – Runtime ANALYZE for Better Query Plans with Presto

At PrestoCon Day, Anant Aneja of Ahana, an IBM Company introduced a new feature for Presto called Quick Stats which aims to enhance query optimization by providing up-to-date statistics for the query optimizer. This enables more accurate cost-based decisions and better selectivity for non-trivial queries. In this blog post we’ll recap the details and benefits…

Presto Parquet Column Encryption

Introduction Apache Parquet modular encryption provides encryption at-rest and in-transit at finer-grained. In big data world, data analytic tables are usually very wide with hundreds of columns, while only a small number of columns need to be protected. So the finer-grained access control is a better fit than coarse-grained one like table level access control….

Faster Presto Queries with Parquet Page Index

Introduction Today’s data is growing very fast, which creates challenges for query engines like Presto. Presto is a popular interactive query engine, because of its scalability, high performance, and smooth integration with Hadoop. As the volume of data grows, Presto needs to read larger chunks of data and load them into memory, which causes higher…