Trino: Scalable, Distributed, and Open Source SQL Engine!
Trino: SQL at any scale, on any storage, in any environment!
In 2012, Presto was born within a developer's Facebook team. Because they disagreed with the project's direction, some of its founders decided to start their project; after much negotiation with Facebook, they created Trino, an evolution of Presto.
In addition to Presto and Trino, there are currently Ahana and Starbust that can be deployed and used by Varada:
Trino is a tool designed to query large amounts of data using distributed queries efficiently. If you work with terabytes or petabytes of data, you probably use tools that interact with Hadoop and HDFS. Trino is designed as an alternative to tools that query HDFS using MapReduce job pipelines such as Hive or Pig, but Trino is not limited to accessing HDFS. Trino can be extended to operate on different data sources, including traditional relational databases and other data sources such as Cassandra.
Trino is designed to handle data storage and analysis: analyzing data, aggregating large amounts of data, and producing reports. These workloads are…
