Facebook has open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive.

Session Details: Presto is an open-source high performance, distributed SQL query engine. Born at Facebook in 2012, Presto was built to run interactive queries on large Hadoop-based clusters.

Ahana Cloud for Presto turns a data lake on Amazon S3 into what is effectively a data warehouse, without moving any data. SQL queries run quickly even when joining multiple heterogeneous data sources.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 21, 2021 — Ahana, the Presto company, today announced that its Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Dipti Borkar will co-lead a session with Facebook Software Engineer Tim ...

Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.