Test figures published by social network Facebook are designed to show the results of a series of advances in the Presto open-source query engine, including a new ORC reader.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ahana, the Presto company, today announced that its Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Dipti Borkar will co-lead a session with Facebook ...

Session Details: Presto is an open-source high performance, distributed SQL query engine. Born at Facebook in 2012, Presto was built to run interactive queries on large Hadoop-based clusters.

Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.

Looker, provider of a BI platform, has added support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive.