Building Large-scale Query Operators and Window Functions for Prestissimo using Velox – Aditi Pandit
In this talk, Aditi Pandit, Principal Software Engineer at Ahana and Presto/Velox contributor, will throw the covers back on some of the most interesting portions of working in Prestissimo and Velox. The talk will be based on the experience of implementing the windowing functions in Velox. It will cover the nitty gritty on the vectorized operator, memory management and spilling. This talk is perfect for anyone who is using Presto in production and wants to understand more about the internals, or someone who is new to Presto and is looking for a deep technical understanding of the architecture.
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.
Update on Intel’s Participation in the Presto and Velox Communities – David Cohen, Intel
In this talk I will provide a brief update on Intel’s involvement in the Presto and Velox projects.
PrestoDB, the Velox Library, and the Coming Age of Heterogeneous Hardware – Dave Cohen, Intel
This talk will quickly review the market shift to use heterogeneous hardware, the need for new language runtime and library level abstractions to hide the complexity of this hardware, and position the PrestoDB SQL query engine with the Velox and Cachelib libraries embodiments of these abstractions.
Prestissimo – Presto-on-Velox for Faster More Efficient Queries – Orri Erling, Meta
We built a drop-in replacement for the Presto worker using C++ and Velox and saw a dramatic improvements in CPU efficiency and latency for interactive queries. We embraced adaptive execution provided by Velox to efficiently evaluate filters pushed down into scan and automatically enable array-based aggregations and joins. We make extensive use of dictionary encodings to achieve zero-copy execution throughout the engine. We allow for vectorization friendly function implementations, provide ASCII-only fast paths and many other tricks. We’d like to share our learnings, early results and future plans. We are looking forward to invite the community to join our efforts in building the next generation of Presto together.