Harnessing Presto – A Deep Dive into Adobe Advertising’s Three Use Cases

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At PrestoCon Day 2023, we had a team from Adobe showcasing three different Presto-based use cases. As part of Adobe Advertising, Rajmani Arya, Varun Senthilnathan and Manoj Kumar Dhakad detailed the Adobe Data Processing platform (ADP) and three use cases for Presto: scheduled pipelines, ad-hoc query, and custom reporting. Let’s dive into what they covered….

Spatial Joins 1: Local Spatial Joins

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A common type of spatial query involves relating one table of geometric objects (e.g., a table population_centers with columns population, latitude, longitude) with another such table (e.g., a table counties with columns county_name, boundary_wkt), such as calculating for each county the population sum of all population centers contained within it. These kinds of calculations are…