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 

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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…

Avoid Data Silos in Presto in Meta: the journey from Raptor to RaptorX

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Raptor is a Presto connector (presto-raptor) that is used to power some critical interactive query workloads in Meta (previously Facebook). Though referred to in the ICDE 2019 paper Presto: SQL on Everything, it remains somewhat mysterious to many Presto users because there is no available documentation for this feature. This article will shed some light…