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…
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…
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was originally designed for interactive use cases, however, after seeing the merit in having a single interface for both batch and interactive, it is now also used heavily for processing…