May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
8h 20m
English
Presto is a product developed by Facebook that also translates SQL into big data workloads, but is tailored for interactive analytics. It is extremely fast and is specially optimized for when you have a large fact table and several smaller dimension tables (such as a transaction and other joined tables, such as a product and clients). AWS provides a serverless alternative based on Presto, called Athena, which is great when your data is on S3. Athena queries are charged based on how much data is scanned. For this reason, it has become extremely popular for big data analytics.
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