Author: Shixuan Fan

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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Presto Unlimited: MPP SQL Engine at Scale
By Wenlei Xie, Andrii Rosa, Shixuan Fan, Tim Meehan & Rebecca Schlussel August 5, 2019September 21, 2023
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was originally designed for interactive use cases, however, after seeing the merit in having a single interface for both batch and interactive, it is now also used heavily for processing…
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