Time Travel for Iceberg Tables in Presto

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Introduction Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, excels at querying large data sets distributed across diverse data sources. It has maintained its position as a high-performance data analytics tool for over a decade. As data collection capabilities expand, businesses increasingly recognize the importance of historical data alongside current data. With the recent release of…

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…