Query Engine

Installing and Running Presto

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi Folks ! In my previous blog, I had talked about Getting Introduced with Presto. In today’s blog, I shall be talking about setting up(installing) and running presto. The basic pre-requisites for setting up Presto are: Linux or Mac OS X Java 8, 64-bit Python 2.4+ Installation Download the Presto Tarball from here Unpack the Tarball After unpacking you will see a directory presto-server-0.175 which Continue Reading

Getting Introduced with Presto

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi Folks! In today’s blog I will be introducing you to a new open source distributed Sql Query Engine – Presto. It is designed for running SQL queries over Big Data( petabytes of Data). It was designed by the people at Facebook. Introduction Quoting it’s formal definition “Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of Continue Reading