What is Presto on Spark?

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…

Scaling with Presto on Spark

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…

RaptorX: Building a 10X Faster Presto

RaptorX is an internal project name aiming to boost query latency significantly beyond what vanilla Presto is capable of. This blog post introduces the hierarchical cache work, which is the key building block for RaptorX. With the support of the cache, we are able to boost query performance by 10X. This new architecture can beat…