Presto has evolved into a unified SQL engine on top of cloud data lakes for both interactive queries as well as batch workloads with multiple data sources. This tutorial is … Continue reading Tutorial: How to run SQL queries with Presto on Google BigQuery

Since COVID, every business has pivoted and moved everything online, accelerating digital transformation with data and AI. Self-service, accelerated analytics has become more and more critical for businesses and Snowflake … Continue reading Snowflake may not be the silver bullet you wanted for your long term data strategy… here’s why

What is Presto? Presto is a distributed query engine designed from the ground up for data lake analytics and interactive query workloads. Presto supports connectivity to a wide variety of … Continue reading Hands-on Presto Tutorial: How to run Presto on Kubernetes

Running a three node PrestoDB cluster on a laptop Environment This guide was developed using a laptop running windows OS and docker on it. Implementation Steps This guide was developed … Continue reading Hands-on Presto Tutorial: Presto 102

Presto was born out of the need for low-latency interactive queries on large scale data, and hence, continually optimized for that use case. In such scenarios, the best practice is … Continue reading Enabling spill to disk for optimal price per performance

Installing & Configuring Presto locally Presto Installation Presto can be installed manually or using docker images on: Single Node: Both co-ordinator and workers run on the same machine.  or even … Continue reading Hands-on Presto Tutorial: Presto 101

By Dipti Borkar, Ahana Cofounder, Chief Product Officer & Chief Evangelist I’ve been in open source software companies and communities for over 10 years now, and in the database industry … Continue reading Why I’m betting on PrestoDB, and why you should too!

In this brief post, we’ll discuss the 5 main reasons why data platform engineers decide to move their data analytics workloads from Amazon Athena to Ahana Cloud for Presto. While … Continue reading 5 main reasons Data Engineers move from AWS Athena to Ahana Cloud

Presto Foundation compared to Single Vendor-Driven Open Source Projects Why Project Neutrality Matters Steven Mih, Cofounder and CEO, Ahana PrestoCon Day was last week on March 24, and it was … Continue reading Presto Foundation Vs Single Open Source Projects | Ahana

Upsolver and Ahana Announce Technology Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of Open Data Lake Analytics in the Cloud with Presto Todd Odess, Head of Partnerships at Upsolver | Ali LeClerc, Head … Continue reading Upsolver and Ahana Announce Technology Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of Open Data Lake Analytics in the Cloud with Presto

This is the 4th blog in our comparing AWS Athena to PrestoDB series. If you missed the others, you can find them here: Part 1: AWS Athena vs. PrestoDB Blog … Continue reading Comparing AWS Athena and PrestoDB Blog Series: Athena Alternatives

Athena Partition Limits This is our 3rd blog in the comparing AWS Athena to PrestoDB series. If you missed the first two, you can find them here: Part 1: AWS … Continue reading Athena Partition Limits | Comparing AWS Athena & PrestoDB | Ahana

Athena Query Limits Welcome to the 2nd blog in our blog series on comparing AWS Athena, a serverless Presto service, to open source PrestoDB. In this series we’ll discuss Amazon’s … Continue reading Athena Query Limits | Comparing AWS Athena & PrestoDB | Ahana

Athena Limitations & AWS Athena Limits Welcome to our blog series on comparing AWS Athena, a serverless Presto service, to open source PrestoDB. In this series we’ll discuss Amazon’s Athena … Continue reading Athena Limitations & AWS Athena Limits | Comparing AWS Athena | Ahana

I’m thrilled to share that today Ahana Cloud for Presto on AWS is generally available and open for Open Analytics. Ahana Cloud 🌤 is the first fully integrated, cloud-native managed … Continue reading Ahana Cloud for Presto 🌤 – Now “Open” for “Open Analytics”

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. Here’s a look at some important characteristics of Presto that account for its growing adoption.

This blog post discusses how AWS users have evolved their big data requirements and how the Ahana team architected its managed service offering, highlighting the best practice of providing an “In-VPC” deployment.

Today I am incredibly excited to announce Ahana Cloud for Presto, the first fully integrated, cloud-native managed service for Presto – that simplifies the ability of cloud and data platform teams of all sizes to provide self-service, SQL analytics for their data analysts and scientists.

Why are there two Presto projects and how many do we need? For the benefit of the community, I hope we can see the confusion end with: 1 foundation, 1 primary code base for new development, and 1 community.

We spent some time with Apache Software Foundation board member, PMC member, and open source expert Ted Dunning to get his thoughts on the state of open source software.

There are many factors that contribute to strong co-founder relationships. Forbes refers to one set and defines them as the 3Ts…