Our Presto Credo for the Truly Open Source SQL Query Engine

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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…

Disaggregated Coordinator

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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….