Benchmarking a distributed SQL engine like Presto involves much more than running a few queries and recording wall-clock times. Real-world performance evaluation demands multi-phase test execution, concurrent workloads, production traffic replay, and deep offline analysis. PBench is a purpose-built benchmarking toolkit for Presto that handles all of this through a declarative, composable stage system. With the 1.2.1…
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…
I’ve now been a part of IBM for 2 years and I’m pretty encouraged with the work this team has put into open-source Presto. So, I wanted to take some time to share in a blog what we’ve been up to for the last 2 years and the growth we’ve seen collectively in the community…
At IBM, we are passionate about pushing the boundaries of data processing capabilities. To that end, we’re excited to share our latest groundbreaking work towards Presto 2.0, the next-generation version of Presto that includes a robust native C++ worker. This initiative not only strengthens the project’s technological foundations but also reiterates our dedication to the…
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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