Author: Anant Aneja

Software Engineer at IBM

Leading by Contribution: IBM’s Ongoing Investment in Open-Source Presto
By Anant Aneja, Yabin Ma, Ali LeClerc & Ethan Zhang July 15, 2025July 16, 2025
Note: This is a cross-post from https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/ali-leclerc/2025/07/15/ibms-ongoing-investment-in-presto At IBM, we believe open source is the engine of innovation. Presto, as a fast and flexible SQL engine for interactive analytics, continues to evolve rapidly thanks to community contributions. Over the past year, IBM engineers have focused on driving Presto forward across security, performance, native execution, and…
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Elevating Presto Query Optimization: Leveraging State-of-the-Art Techniques for Improved Performance
By David Simmen, Anant Aneja, Vivek Bharathan, Zachary Blanco, Aditi Pandit & Ethan Zhang March 21, 2024March 21, 2024
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…
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