Hello Presto enthusiasts! We here at the Presto Outreach Committee are absolutely thrilled to be entering the new year of 2023. It’s hard to believe that another year has passed, but as we reflect on the past year, we can’t help but feel grateful for the amazing growth and progress we’ve seen in the Presto…
We believe that data analytics should be democratized—and is why we innovate Presto with state-of-the-art database technology. Trusted governance is important to us—and is why we model our project governance and by laws after the Linux Foundation. TO OUR FELLOW DATA ENGINEERS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, AND DATA PLATFORM ENTHUSIASTS: As the use of data analytics and…
The Presto Foundation is thrilled to announce that today Presto has been awarded “2022 Editors Choice for Top 3 Data and AI Open Source Projects to Watch” from BigDATAwire. Past winners are a true who’s who in the data world including Apache Spark (2020), Apache Kafka (2018), MongoDB (2019), Apache Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Redis (2021)….
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…
We recently wrapped up an amazing PrestoCon Day attended by over 600 people from across the globe. The technical discussions and the panel was a clear indication of the growing community. We showcased a number of features contributed by various companies that continue to advance the mission of Presto open source, reiterating our commitment to…
Tl;dr: 2020 was a huge year for the Presto community. We held our first major conference, PrestoCon, the biggest Presto event ever. We had a massive expansion of our meetup groups with more than 20 sessions held throughout the year, and significant innovations were contributed to Presto! This year has certainly been unique, to say…
Electronic Arts (EA) is a leading company in the gaming industry, providing dozens of games to serve billions of users worldwide each year. Making near real-time decisions for EA’s online services is critical for our business. This blog describes a data platform on AWS based on Presto and Alluxio to support online services with instantaneous…
Migrating SQL workloads from a fully on-premise environment to cloud infrastructure has numerous benefits, including alleviating resource contention and reducing costs by paying for computation resources on an on-demand basis. In the case of Presto running on data stored in HDFS, the separation of compute in the cloud and storage on-premises is apparent since Presto’s…
The Facebook Presto team has been collaborating with Alluxio on an open source data caching solution for Presto. This is required for multiple Facebook use-cases to improve query latency for queries that scan data from remote sources such as HDFS. We have observed significant improvements in query latencies and IO scans in our experiments. We…
Presto is a key piece of data infrastructure at many companies. The community has many ongoing projects for taking it to new levels of performance and functionality plus unique experience and insight into challenges of scale. We are opening this blog as an informal channel for discussing our work as well as technology trends and…