Even Faster Unnest

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Unnest is a common operation in Facebook’s daily Presto workload. It converts an ARRAY, MAP, or ROW into a flat relation. Its original implementation used deep copy all the time and was very inefficient. In Unnest Operator Performance Enhancement with Dictionary Blocks, the author improved the Unnest operator by up to 10x in CPU and…

Engineering SQL Support on Apache Pinot at Uber

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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…