Presto Newsletter – November 2018

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Presto Newsletter, a monthly round up of news and events relevant to the Presto community.

Events
San Mateo December 4 : Alluxio & Presto – Architecture for Fast SQL in the Cloud
Deploying Presto on the Alluxio open source distributed storage system for fast analytics in the cloud.

• Attend the Meetup

Videos of Presto talks at DataEngConf NYC

• Fixing the Big Data Development Cycle with SQL – Justin Coffey, Criteo Labs
• Presto: Fast SQL on Anything – Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Starburst

Presto News & Knowledge

Benchmarking Hive vs Presto on HDFS & S3
Why Presto outperforms Hive on HDFS and S3, and by how much…

Presto on YugaByte DB: Interactive OLAP SQL Queries Made Easy (Time Series examples)
Building a scalable SQL platform for integrating and analyzing time series data in YugaByte DB.

Big Data and Machine Learning @ Uber
Uber Engineering Manager, Zhenxiao Luo explains how Uber tackles data caching, machine learning, and AI use cases.

Videos from Data @Scale conference
Talks on Presto, InfluxDB, Casandra, Deleting & Securing data at scale, and more…

Google extends the SQL Capabilities of Google Cloud Dataproc with Presto
Start a Presto cluster within 90 seconds, and run SQL queries that integrate data from Cloud Dataproc and any other Presto-supported data source.

Releases & New Features 

Presto 208e is now available on AWS Marketplace and Azure

• Presto 208e for AWS
• Presto 208e on Azure

Engineers Corner 

Add support for query pushdown to S3 using S3 Select
New contribution to Presto by Sameer2086 improves query performance against S3 objects.