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….

Disaggregated Coordinator

Overview Presto’s architecture originally only supported a single coordinator and a pool of workers. This has worked well for many years but created some challenges. To overcome these challenges, we came up with a new design with a disaggregated coordinator that allows the coordinator to be horizontally scaled out across a single pool of workers….