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.

Prism: Presto Gateway Service at Uber – Hitarth Trivedi, Uber

Prism: Presto Gateway Service at Uber – Hitarth Trivedi, Uber

Prism is a gateway service for all Presto queries at Uber. It addresses Uber specific needs in four main areas – resource management, query gating, monitoring, and security. It is responsible for proxying over three million weekly queries from 6000+ weekly active users across all of Uber. Presto has variable execution times due to high multi-tenancy at Uber. Prism helps in overcoming those challenges using features like query routing, load balancing, query gating, session parameter checks, failover clusters which helps in maintaining a 99.9% availability and reliability SLA for Presto at Uber. Functionality – Query Execution: 1. Async execution API returns data stream 2. Async execution API returns File Descriptor – Routing – Prism can route queries to different clusters based on client sources. Other functionalities: Load Balancing, Query Gating, Failover, Session Properties, Security