5 Reasons Why AI Is the Future of SQL – Jared Zhao, AskEdith

5 Reasons Why AI Is the Future of SQL – Jared Zhao, AskEdith

SQL remains ubiquitous for data retrieval and analytics, yet can be tedious to write, and is downright unusable for business users. The 2-5 business day turnaround time for data projects is both disruptive and frustrating for business users. Data teams are becoming increasingly overwhelmed, and organizations are pushing to empower their “citizen data analysts.” With the advent of AI English-to-SQL platforms like AskEdith, now anyone can work with and query Presto using plain English questions. AskEdith integrates natively with web interfaces like Ahana for a seamless analytics experience.

How Carbon uses PrestoDB in the Cloud with Ahana to Power its Real-time Customer Dashboards

How Carbon uses PrestoDB in the Cloud with Ahana to Power its Real-time Customer Dashboards

Carbon is a real-time revenue management platform that consolidates revenue and audience analytics, data management, and yield operations into a single solution. Real-time analytics is super critical – their customers rely on real-time data to make revenue decisions. After facing issues around performance, visibility & ease of use, and serverless pricing model with AWS Athena, the team moved to a managed service for PrestoDB in the cloud – Ahana Cloud – to power their customer-facing dashboards. In this session, Jordan will discuss some of the reasons the team moved from AWS Athena to a managed PrestoDB on Intel-optimized AWS instances. He will also dive into their current architecture that includes an Ahana-managed Hive Metastore along with Apache ORC file format and an S3-based data lake. Last, he’ll share some performance benchmarks and talk about what’s next for PrestoDB at Carbon.