The need for data engineers and analysts to run interactive, ad hoc analytics on large amounts of data continues to grow explosively. Data platform teams are increasingly using the federated SQL query engine PrestoDB to run such analytics for a variety of use cases across a wide range of data lakes and databases in-place, without the need to move data. PrestoDB is hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation and is the same project running at massive scale at Facebook, Uber and Twitter.
Let’s look at some important characteristics of Presto that account for its growing adoption.
