The Future of Presto’s Query Optimizer – Bill McKenna, Ahana

The Future of Presto’s Query Optimizer – Bill McKenna, Ahana

In this talk, you will hear from the query optimizer OG himself, Bill McKenna (Principal software engineer at Ahana, Architect for the query optimizer that became the code base of the Amazon Redshift query optimizer, and co-author of The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search) go into detail about the state of modern query optimizers, and how Presto stacks up against them and where it will go in the near future. If database theory is your jam, you won’t want to miss this deeply technical presentation from one of the pioneers in the field.

Presto at Walmart and enhancements for cross cloud query federation

Presto at Walmart and enhancements for cross cloud query federation

In this talk we are going to introduce Presto cross environment query federation which will enable query execution across different clouds and on-prem Presto clusters. This helps in reducing the network data transfer which results in lower Egress and Ingress costs when we are querying across clouds.