Presto News & Knowledge
Presto Turns 8 Years Old
Presto just turned eight years old only a few weeks ago and is just getting started. In this blog we take a look at how the Presto project began way back in 2012 and how the community has grown to where it is today.
Using Starburst To Federate SQL Queries Across Multiple Data Sources
In this blog post, Senthil Anandarangan and Ganesh Hegdewe share their experiences with trying out the data virtualization capabilities of Starburst by querying directly on the source data of multiple data sources.
The Death Of Apache Drill
One of the things that originally excited people about Presto it that it wasn’t tied to any Hadoop distribution like Apache Drill was to MapR. This blog looks at some of the reasons Drill failed to take off and how Presto has overcome those challenges.
Securing And Managing Multi-cloud Presto Clusters With Grab’s DataGateway
In 2016, Grab started the “DataGateway” project to better manage data access for the hundreds of Grabbers who needed access to Presto for their work. Since then, DataGateway has grown to become much more than just an access control mechanism for Presto. In this blog, they share what they’ve achieved since the initial launch of the project.
Podcast – The Founder Formula by Trace3: “This 2-Time Founder Ignored Tradition & Went Bootstrap”
Starburst Co-founder & CEO, Justin Borgman, joins the Founder Formula podcast to discuss what he’s learned from building two startups, the importance of company culture & values, and much more! Listen to the full episode here.
Presto Intro – Querying Multiple Data Sources With A Single Query Using Presto’s Query Federation
In this new series, Big Data Boutique provides an introduction to Presto and shows how to use it to combine data from several sources (S3, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc) using Presto’s Query Federation feature.
