Author: Bin Fan

VP Open Source at Alluxio

Presto Foundation and PrestoDB: Our Commitment to the Presto Open Source Community
By Girish Baliga, Tim Meehan, Dipti Borkar, Zhenxiao Luo, Steven Mih & Bin Fan June 14, 2021September 21, 2023
We recently wrapped up an amazing PrestoCon Day attended by over 600 people from across the globe. The technical discussions and the panel was a clear indication of the growing community. We showcased a number of features contributed by various companies that continue to advance the mission of Presto open source, reiterating our commitment to…
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RaptorX: Building a 10X Faster Presto
By James Sun, Ke Wang, Rohit Jain, Saksham Sachdev, Shixuan Fan, Bin Fan, Zhenxiao Luo & Lu Niu February 4, 2021September 21, 2023
RaptorX is an internal project name aiming to boost query latency significantly beyond what vanilla Presto is capable of. This blog post introduces the hierarchical cache work, which is the key building block for RaptorX. With the support of the cache, we are able to boost query performance by 10X. This new architecture can beat…
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