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.

Drag and Drop Query Builder for PrestoDB – Ravishankar Nair, PassionBytes

Drag and Drop Query Builder for PrestoDB – Ravishankar Nair, PassionBytes

You use multiple tools for databases, for example Azure Data Studio for SQLServer access, Toad or SQLDeveloper for Oracle access, MySQLWorkbench for MySQL databases. Imagine we have one tool and we can query any database, bring any table from any catalog to a single canvas! Now you join, the underlying PrestoDB compatible query is generated. Click a button, you get the profiled data, including distributions and correlations. An amazing tool in action.