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Learn how to build an open data lakehouse stack using Presto, Apache Hudi and AWS S3 in this free hands-on lab.

Ahana, the only SaaS for Presto, today announced many new industry accolades in 1H 2022.

Redshift vs Redshift Spectrum: A Complete Comparison Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehouse service offered by Amazon. Redshift is a columnar database which is optimized to handle the sort … Continue reading Amazon Redshift Spectrum vs Redshift: Key Differences

Lake Formation makes it easier to set up the data lake, and to incorporate Redshift as part of the compute layer alongside other analytics tools and services.

Ahana, the only SaaS for Presto, today announced its participation in PrestoCon Day, a day dedicated to all things Presto taking place virtually on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Data Warehouse: A Comprehensive Guide Introduction A data warehouse is a data repository that is typically used for analytic systems and Business Intelligence tools. It is typically composed of operational … Continue reading Data Warehouse: Understanding the Types & Architecture

Data Warehouse Concepts for Beginners A data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. Typically a data warehouse contains historical … Continue reading Data Warehouse Concepts for Beginners | Ahana

Ahana Will Co-Lead Session At Data & AI Summit About Presto Open Source SQL Query Engine San Mateo, Calif. – June 23, 2022 — Ahana, the only SaaS for Presto, … Continue reading Ahana Will Co-Lead Session At Data & AI Summit About Presto Open Source SQL Query Engine

Redshift is an Amazon petabyte-scale data warehouse product that is based on PostgreSQL version 8.0.2. While there are pros to Redshift, there are also cons. One of which is query limits. In this article we will dive deeper into the restrictions of Redshift including query limitations.

Ahana Announces Additional $7.2 Million Funding Led by Liberty Global Ventures and Debuts Free Community Edition of Ahana Cloud for Presto for the Open Data Lakehouse 

Ahana, the only SaaS for Presto, today announced that Rohan Pednekar, Ahana’s senior product manager, will co-lead a session with Meta Developer Advocate Philip Bell at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit about Presto, the Meta-born open source high performance, distributed SQL query engine.

See how Ahana and Cube work together to help you set up a Presto cluster and build a single source of truth for metrics without spending days reading cryptic docs

AWS Athena query limits cause problems, and data engineering teams spend hours diagnosing them. Learn what the limitations are and how to fix.

Launched in 2017, Redshift Spectrum is a feature within Redshift that enables you to query data stored in AWS S3 using SQL. Spectrum allows you to do federated queries from within the Redshift SQL query editor to data in S3, while also being able to combine it with data in Redshift.

AWS lake formation helps users to build, manage and secure their data lakes in a very short amount of time, meaning days instead of months as is common with a traditional data lake approach.

Learn how you can start building an Open Data Lakehouse analytics stack using Presto, Hudi and AWS S3 and solve the challenges of a data warehouse.

AWS Redshift is a completely managed cloud data warehouse service with the ability to scale on-demand and is compatible with multitudes of AWS tools and technologies. AWS Redshift is considered the preferred cloud data warehouse of choice for most customers but the pricing is not simple, since it tries to accommodate different use cases and customers. Let us try to understand the pricing details of Amazon Redshift.

During this episode of DM Radio you will learn from experts Raj K of General Dynamics Information technology and Wen Phan of Ahana.

What is Presto? Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against all types of data sources. Learn more about what Presto is, how it’s used, and how to get started.

Learn more about what Presto is, how it was developed, and how to use it.

Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse that offers a cloud-based data storage and analytics service. Snowflake runs completely on cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse offered as a managed service by AWS, and a popular choice for business intelligence and reporting use cases

In this webinar, you’ll hear from Ali LeClerc who will discuss the data landscape and why many companies are moving to an open data lakehouse.

With the Presto Query Analyzer, data platform teams can get instant insights into their Presto clusters including query performance, bandwidth bottlenecks, and much more. The Presto Query Analyzer was built for the Presto community and is free to use.

Amazon Redshift is one of the most widely-used services in the AWS ecosystem and is a familiar component in many cloud architectures.

ETL and ELT in Data Warehousing What is ETL and ELT? ETL, or Extract Transform Load, is when an ETL tool or series of homegrown programs extracts data from a … Continue reading ETL and ELT | What are the differences between ETL and ELT

In this tutorial, we use a step-by-step approach so you can learn how to query redshift using SQL with Presto (running with Kubernetes).

AWS Redshift Spectrum vs Athena: Redshift is the storage and Redshift Spectrum is a SQL engine extension. Athena is a standalone SQL engine

Understanding AWS Athena Costs with Examples What Is Amazon Athena?  Since you’re reading this to understand Athena costs, you likely already know, so we’ll just very briefly touch on what … Continue reading How Much Does Amazon Athena Cost? | Ahana

In this article we’ll look at the contextual requirements of a data warehouse, which are the five components of a data warehouse.

Overview The term Data Lakehouse has become very popular over the last year or so, especially as more customers are migrating their workloads to the cloud. This article will help … Continue reading What is a Data Lakehouse Architecture?

During this webinar we will share how to build an open data lakehouse with Presto and AWS S3 using Ahana Cloud.

Price-Performance Ratio of AWS Athena Presto vs Ahana Cloud for Presto Understand the price-performance ratio of Amazon Athena vs. Ahana. Both AWS Athena and Ahana Cloud are based on the … Continue reading Price-Performance Ratio of Athena vs Ahana

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake very quickly (in a matter of days), providing a governance layer for data lakes on AWS S3. 

During this webinar we’ll show you how you can build an open data lakehouse stack. At the heart of this stack is Presto, the open source SQL query engine for the data lake, and the transaction manager / governance layer, which includes technologies like Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and AWS Lake Formation.

A popular use case is to use Athena to query Parquet, ORC, CSV and JSON files that are typically used for querying directly, or transformed and loaded into a data warehouse.

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 BigQuery

During this webinar we’ll discuss how nearly three-fifths of organizations have gained competitive advantage from their data lake initiatives. That includes unleashing the intelligence-generating potential of a data lake that enables ad hoc data discovery and analytics in an open and flexible manner. We’ll cover:

The Open Data Lake in the cloud is the solution to the massive data problem. Many companies are adopting that architecture because of better price-performance, scale, and non-proprietary architecture.

Here, we are going to talk about AWS Athena vs Glue, which is an interesting pairing as they are both complementary and competitive. So, what are they exactly?

Resource management in databases allows administrators to have control over resources and assign a priority to sessions, ensuring the most important transactions get the major share of system resources. Resource management in a distributed environment makes accessibility of data easier and manages resources over the network of autonomous computers (i.e. Distributed System). The basis of resource management in the distributed system is also resource sharing.

Querying Parquet Files using AWS Amazon Athena Parquet is one of the latest file formats with many advantages over some of the more commonly used formats like CSV and JSON. … Continue reading How to Query Parquet Files using Amazon Athena | Ahana

RaptorX Background and Context Meta introduced a multi-level cache at PrestoCon 2021. Code-named the “RaptorX Project,” it aims to make Presto 10x faster on Meta- scale petabyte workloads. Here at … Continue reading Configuring RaptorX – a multi-level caching with Presto

This article is focused on the first step and how AWS Lake Formation Blueprints can make that easy and automated. Before you can run analytics to get insights, you need your data continuously pooling into your lake!

Ahana, the only SaaS for Presto, today announced significant new security features added to its Ahana Cloud for Presto managed service. They include multi-user support for Presto and Ahana, fine-grained access control for data lakes with deep Apache Ranger integration, and audit support for all access.

AWS Lake Formation vs AWS Glue – What are the differences? As you start building your analytics stack in AWS, there are several AWS technologies to understand as you begin. … Continue reading Difference Between AWS Lake Formation vs AWS Glue

Amazon S3 Select Limitations What is Amazon S3 Select? Amazon S3 Select allows you to use simple structured query language (SQL) statements to filter the contents of an Amazon S3 … Continue reading Limitations of Amazon S3 Select | AWS Select Capabilities

Learn how to use Athena to query Amazon S3 and start running queries on your S3 data lake. Query JSON, Apache Parquet, Apache ORC, CSV, and more.

What is AWS Lake Formation? For AWS users who want to get governance on their data lake, AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up … Continue reading What is AWS Lake Formation? | Amazon S3 Lake formation

LDAP is an industry standard application used for directory services authentication. Learn how does Presto work with LDAP