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…

Scaling with Presto on Spark

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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…