Avoid Data Silos in Presto in Meta: the journey from Raptor to RaptorX

Raptor is a Presto connector (presto-raptor) that is used to power some critical interactive query workloads in Meta (previously Facebook). Though referred to in the ICDE 2019 paper Presto: SQL on Everything, it remains somewhat mysterious to many Presto users because there is no available documentation for this feature. This article will shed some light…

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…

Engineering SQL Support on Apache Pinot at Uber

The article, Engineering SQL Support on Apache Pinot at Uber, was originally published by Uber on the Uber Engineering Blog on January 15, 2020. Check out eng.uber.com for more articles about Uber’s engineering work and follow Uber Engineering at @UberEng and Uber Open Source at @UberOpenSouce on Twitter for updates from our teams. Uber leverages…