Elevating Presto Query Optimization: Leveraging State-of-the-Art Techniques for Improved Performance 

Elevating Presto Query Optimization: Leveraging State-of-the-Art Techniques for Improved Performance 

Presto, a prominent open-source distributed SQL query engine, has been at the leading edge of high-performance data analytics for over a decade. In analytical data processing, the effectiveness of query optimization is paramount. Over the last half-century, optimizing SQL queries has been a hotbed of research and development, resulting in groundbreaking innovations. This blog post…

Presto on AWS at Twilio – Lesson Learned and Optimization

Earlier this month we hosted PrestoCon, a fantastic in-person event that showcased the innovation around the Presto project. In this blog we’ll detail Twilio’s presentation on their Presto use case, including their architecture, key optimizations, and lessons learned. You can also check out their full presentation here. In their session, Twilio engineers Aakash Pradeep and…

Data Lake Analytics: Alibaba’s Federated Cloud Strategy

Presto is known to be a high-performance, distributed SQL query engine for Big Data. It offers large-scale data analytics with multiple connectors for accessing various data sources. This capability enables the Presto users to further extend some features to build a large-scale data federation service on cloud. Alibaba Data Lake Analytics embraces Presto’s federated query…