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Presto Geospatial Functions Tutorial A question that often comes up is “how do I do geospatial queries and spatial joins in Presto?”. Fortunately Presto supports a wealth of functions and … Continue reading Presto Geospatial Functions Tutorial & Guide l Ahana

How to Write Python Script to Connect to a Presto Cluster If you need a quick tutorial on how to write a python script to connect to a Presto cluster … Continue reading Write Python Script To Connect To Presto Cluster | Ahana

Setting-up Presto Resource Groups Before you start allowing users on your Presto cluster it’s best practice to configure resource groups.  A resource group is a query admission control and workload … Continue reading Presto Resource Groups | Setting Up Presto Resource Group | Ahana

How To Connect To Presto Connections to and from Presto fall into three main categories:   1) The Presto connectors that provide access to source data in various databases and file … Continue reading How To Connect To Presto | Connecting To Presto | Ahana

How To Access Presto There are several ways to access and use Presto. Here are 3 of the most common ways: Command Line Interface The Presto CLI provides a terminal-based … Continue reading How To Access Presto | Accessing Presto | Ahana

Machine Learning With Presto Presto is an invaluable tool for accessing and combining data, and performing feature engineering and feature extraction, in a scalable way ready for machine learning and … Continue reading Machine Learning With Presto | Presto Machine Learning | Ahana

How to Make The Presto Query Engine Run Fastest How do you make the Presto query engine run as fast as possible?  The following list of things to consider, check … Continue reading How To Make Presto Query Engine Run Fastest | Ahana

What is a Presto Connection and how does it work? Connections to and from Presto fall into two main categories:   1) The Presto connectors that provide access to source data … Continue reading What Is A Presto Connection | Presto Connections | Ahana

Presto Data Share Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto was … Continue reading Presto Data Share & Presto Data Sharing | Presto Datashare | Ahana

Presto Performance Presto is an open source distributed ANSI SQL query engine for analytics. Presto supports the separation of compute and storage (i.e. it queries data that is stored externally … Continue reading Presto Performance & Presto Speed Support Tips | Ahana

Presto REST API Presto’s HTTP API is the communication protocol between server and client. It’s used to send query statements for execution on the server and to receive results back … Continue reading Presto REST API | Presto API | Ahana

Presto Parquet Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop, supported by Presto.  Storing data as columns as opposed to rows enables Presto to fulfill queries more efficiently. By discarding … Continue reading Presto Parquet & Parquet Presto | Parquet Tools | Ahana

Presto Speed Presto is an open source distributed ANSI SQL query engine for analytics. Presto supports the separation of compute and storage (i.e. it queries data that is stored externally … Continue reading Presto Speed & Presto Fast | How Fast Is Presto | Ahana

Presto Tools Several tools  and libraries are available, some are bundled with core Presto and others are downloadable extras. See the documentation Resources page at  https://prestodb.io/resources.html for details.  Core Presto … Continue reading Presto Tools & Presto Tool | Key Presto Libraries | Ahana

Presto Documentation Presto’s documentation is maintained by the Presto Foundation and the current version is available here: https://prestodb.io/docs/current/  Releases can be found at: https://github.com/prestodb and the Release Notes are at: … Continue reading Presto Documentation & Presto Docs | Presto Window Functions | Ahana

Presto Query Example Since Presto is an ANSI SQL query engine, its SQL will be very familiar to practically anyone who has used a database, despite the fact Presto is … Continue reading Presto Query Example | Presto CTE & CTE Presto | Ahana

Presto Best Practices We’ve put together a list of best practices for Presto, the open source distributed SQL engine, based on our experience. We hope you find these helpful. Configure … Continue reading Presto Best Practices & Best Practices For Presto | Ahana

The Presto architecture and design seamlessly integrates with an existing data ecosystem without needing to modify it. It’s an additional faster data access interface that turbocharges your existing stack. Presto … Continue reading Presto Architecture and Design

Presto Guide, Documentation & Support Presto is a fast, flexible distributed SQL engine created and used by Facebook at scale. O’Reilly’s Learning and Operating Presto ebook is an approachable guide … Continue reading Presto Guide | Presto Documentation & Support | Ahana

Presto Data Sources Presto was designed and written from the ground up to efficiently query data against data sources of all sizes, ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto connects to … Continue reading Presto Data Sources | Cassandra Presto & Presto Accumlo | Ahana

Presto Server Types Coordinators and workers are the two types of Presto servers. Here’s a look at each server type in more detail. A Presto coordinator parses statements, plans queries, … Continue reading Presto Server Types | Presto Server | Ahana

Is Presto Free? PrestoDB is a free, open source federated, distributed SQL query engine used for ad hoc analytics. The PrestoDB AMI is 100% open source and available for use … Continue reading Is Presto Free | Sign Up For Presto Free | Presto Open source

Presto vs Spark With EMR Cluster Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, solely on AWS.  An … Continue reading EMR Cluster with Spark vs Presto | Presto vs Spark | Ahana

Spark SQL vs Presto When it comes to comparing Spark SQL vs Presto there are some differences to be aware of:  Commonality:  They are both open source, “big data” software … Continue reading Spark SQL vs Presto | Presto vs Spark SQL Comparison | Ahana

Presto Catalogs Presto has several important components that allow you to easily manage data. These components are catalogs, tables and schemas, and connectors. Presto accesses data via connectors; each data … Continue reading Presto Catalogs & Presto Use Catalogs For Data Management | Ahana

Spark Streaming Alternatives When researching Spark alternatives it really depends on your use case. Are you processing streaming data or batch data? Do you prefer an open or closed source/proprietary … Continue reading Spark Streaming Alternatives | Alternative To Spark Streaming

Presto Database & Engine Explained What is Presto? PrestoDB is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against all types of data sources. It enables self-service … Continue reading Presto Database & Engine | Presto SQL & Query Engine | Ahana

Querying AWS S3 data with Presto While users may think of S3 buckets as a datasource for the Presto query engine, from a Presto perspective, file systems and object stores … Continue reading Presto Query S3 & Presto AWS S3 | AWS Presto S3 | Ahana

Optimize Presto EMR What is Amazon EMR? Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) simplifies running big data and analytics frameworks like Presto for scalable compute in the cloud. It provides on-demand, scalable … Continue reading EMR Presto Optimization & Versions | Presto EMR | Ahana

Using Presto with Hadoop How does Presto work with Hadoop? You use Presto to run interactive queries on Hadoop. The difference between using Presto versus something like Hive, for instance, … Continue reading Hadoop Presto | Using Presto With Hadoop Interactive Queries | Ahana

Presto on AWS Presto and AWS Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against all types of data sources. It enables self-service ad-hoc analytics … Continue reading Presto on AWS | How To Run Presto On AWS Athena & EMR | Ahana

What Is Presto? An Introduction To Presto What is Presto? PrestoDB is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against all types of data sources. It … Continue reading What is Presto | Presto Caching, Data Sources & Server Types Intro