Building the Presto Open Source Community – Ahana Round Table

Building the Presto Open Source Community – Ahana Round Table

In this round table moderated by Eric Kavanagh of The Bloor Group, panelists from Uber, Facebook, Ahana, and Alibaba will discuss all aspects of building a thriving open source community around PrestoDB including why Presto is so popular & the problems it solves, the open source model the foundation follows, why governance and transparency are so important to an open source community, and what the community looks for in open source projects.

Presto Query Analysis for Data Layout Formatting and Query Result Caching – Gurmeet Singh, Uber

Presto Query Analysis for Data Layout Formatting and Query Result Caching – Gurmeet Singh, Uber

In this talk, I will be talking about a microservice that we have built at Uber to be able to analyze Presto queries. The Presto Query Engine does not provide endpoints for query analysis purposes. One has to either execute the query or gather insights from the query explain plan. In this talk, I will talk about 1. The work that we had to do to do the query analysis in a microservice using Presto as a library. 2. Doing predicate analysis on the queries to come up with data formatting recommendations in order to improve query performance. 3. Using the analysis service for query result cache invalidation. The analysis figures out whether the results from a previous run of the query are still valid and can be reused.