HANDS-ON VIRTUAL LAB:
Presto 101 for beginners
Learn how to get started with Presto, the open source SQL query engine, on Ahana Cloud, the Presto managed service.
Thursday, October 28 | 10am PT
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Virtual Lab: Presto 101 for beginners
In this 90 minutes hands-on virtual lab you’ll get started with the basics of Presto, an open source SQL query engine. Come prepared to have your video on while following along with the instructor – this is an interactive session and we encourage participation from everyone attending!
What you’ll learn
- What is Presto and why you’d use it
- How to write a Presto query
- How to create and deploy a Presto cluster in AWS using Ahana Cloud
- How to use Presto to query your AWS S3 data lake
- How to use Presto to query across other data sources like MySQL, RedShift, and AWS Glue
- How to create dashboards/visualizations of your data
Course outline:
- Introduction to Presto
- Writing your first Presto Query
- Create and deploy your first Presto cluster in AWS using Ahana Cloud
- Add data sources to Presto like MySQL, Amazon Glue and Amazon RedShift
- Query AWS S3 with your Presto and Hive metastore cluster using Apache Superset
- Build a dashboard to view your data
By the end of this lab, you’ll know how to run basic queries with Presto and how to query your AWS S3-based data lake.