Introduction Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, excels at querying large data sets distributed across diverse data sources. It has maintained its position as a high-performance data analytics tool for over a decade. As data collection capabilities expand, businesses increasingly recognize the importance of historical data alongside current data. With the recent release of…
Today we are happy to share that IBM watsonx.data, a Presto-based Open Data Lakehouse architecture, is now generally available. Back in April we shared that IBM had joined the Presto Foundation through the acquisition of Ahana. To reiterate what we talked about then, we believe that this is an exciting time for the Presto open…
Today we’re thrilled to share that IBM has acquired Ahana, the venture-backed SaaS for Presto startup company, and we want to write more about our belief in Open Source and why IBM and Ahana are joining forces for the benefit of Presto. We believe that this is an exciting time for the Presto project. We’re…