At PrestoCon Day we heard from Bolt, a ride sharing app with 100 million users across 45 countries in Eastern Europe, who shared why they chose Presto to underpin their data architecture platform. By leveraging Presto’s capabilities, Bolt was able to address scalability limits, cost efficiency, and workload management challenges. In this blog we’ll recap…
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)….
1. Reporting and dashboarding This includes serving custom reporting for both internal and external developers for business insights and also many organizations using Presto for interactive A/B testing analytics. A defining characteristic of this use case is a requirement for low latency. It requires tens to hundreds of milliseconds at very high QPS, and not…
Overview Presto was originally designed to run interactive queries against data warehouses, but now it has evolved into a unified SQL engine on top of open data lake analytics for both interactive and batch workloads. Popular workloads on data lakes include: 1. Reporting and dashboarding This includes serving custom reporting for both internal and external…
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…
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…