Presto
Distributed SQL query engine
Query Engine
Open Source
Free
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Presto is a distributed SQL query engine designed for interactive queries on data of any size, from gigabytes to petabytes. It was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics.
Key Features
AI Search
Data Lineage
Data Governance
Collaboration
RBAC
PII Detection
Data Quality
Metadata Automation
Version Control
Notable Features
- Interactive queries
- Multiple data sources
- ANSI SQL
- Federated queries
- Columnar processing
- In-memory processing
Use Cases
Interactive analytics
Data exploration
Ad-hoc queries
Business intelligence
Data lake queries
What Makes Presto Special
Presto enables interactive queries across multiple data sources with ANSI SQL, making it possible to query data lakes, data warehouses, and databases in a unified way. Its distributed architecture provides excellent performance for interactive analytics.
Integrations
Hive
HDFS
S3
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Interactive queries
- Multiple data sources
- ANSI SQL
- Federated queries
- Good performance
- Active community
Cons
- No built-in governance
- Manual setup required
- Limited enterprise features
- No native lineage
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