Headless BI Architecture and Trade-offs – Pavel Tiunov, Cube Dev

Headless BI Architecture and Trade-offs – Pavel Tiunov, Cube Dev

There has been a proliferation of tools in different categories of the modern data stack. This talk will focus on the Headless BI category and Cube’s implementation of Headless BI. Headless BI injects a component between data warehouses and other data sources and tools on the other side of the stack (e.g. CDP, data exploration tools, custom data apps, etc.). This new component encapsulates several critical functions like data modeling, access control, and aggregate awareness while deliberately omitting others, like data visualization and presentation. We’ll explore: – Keeping data models separate from data sources and not substituting data modeling with mere data transformation. – Managing access control centrally, aggregate awareness, and caching in a separate layer upstack from data consumers. – Removing data presentation features and embracing data accessibility via a set of APIs.

Parquet Column Level Access Control with Presto

Parquet Column Level Access Control with Presto

Apache Parquet is the major columnar file storage format used by Apache Presto and several other query engines in many big data analytic frameworks today. In a lot of use cases, a portion of the column data is highly sensitive and must be protected. Column encryption at the file format level is supported in the Parquet community. Due to the rewritten code of Parquet in Presto, Parquet column encryption at Presto needs to be ported with modifications to the Presto code page. And the integration with Key Management Service (KMS) and other query engines like Hive and Spark is another challenge. In this talk, we will show the work we have done for enabling Presto for Parquet column decryption including challenges, solutions, integration with Hive/Spark Parquet column encryption and look forward to the next step of encryption work.

Speed Up Presto Reading with Paquet Column Indexes – Xinli Shang, & Chen Liang, Uber

Speed Up Presto Reading with Paquet Column Indexes – Xinli Shang, & Chen Liang, Uber

Data analytic tables in the big data ecosystem are usually large and some of them can reach petabytes in size. Presto as a fast query engine needs to be intelligent to skip reading unnecessary data based on filters. In addition to the existing filtering to skip partitions, files, and row groups, Apache Parquet Column Index provides further filtering to pages, which is the I/O unit for the Parquet data source. In this presentation, we will show the work that we integrated Parquet Column Index to Presto code base, the performance gains, etc. We will also talk about our effort to open-source this project to PrestoDB and look forward to collaborating with the community to merge!