News from the community of users and contributors
08 Jan 2021 | Martin Traverso, Manfred Moser, Brian Olsen
Wow! If you would have to sum up what happened in the last year in this great community, wow would be it. It is truly awe-inspiring to be part of...
04 Jan 2021 | David Phillips, Dain Sundstrom
As we previously announced, we’re rebranding Presto SQL as Trino. Now comes the hard part: migrating to the new version of the software. We just released the first version, Trino...
27 Dec 2020 | Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips
The software and the community you have come to love and depend on aren’t going anywhere, we are simply renaming.
21 Nov 2020 | Toru Takahashi, Treasure Data
On Nov 11th, 2020, Japan Presto Community held the 2nd Presto Conference welcoming Martin Traverso and Brian Olsen. The conference was hosted at Youtube Live. This article is the summary...
21 Oct 2020 | Yuya Ebihara, LINE
Last year, Presto Conference Tokyo 2019 was held in Japan with Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom and David Phillips, the founders of the Presto Software Foundation. This year, the event changes...
20 Oct 2020 | Brian Olsen
TL;DR: The Hive connector is what you use in Trino for reading data from object storage that is organized according to the rules laid out by Hive, without using the...
07 Oct 2020 | Manfred Moser
Writing the book Trino: The Definitive Guide with Matt and Martin earlier this year, and then publishing it with O’Reilly was a great experience and has been a great success....
01 Oct 2020 | Brian Olsen
Hello, Presto nation! My name is Brian, and I’m a new developer advocate working at Starburst. Let me give you a little background on how I got here, and cover...
28 Sep 2020 | Brian Olsen
Martin made a guest appearance at the Argentina Big Data Meetup (online) where in the first hour Martin talks about Presto’s past, present, and future. This includes the history from...
23 Sep 2020 | Harmandeep Singh, Qubole
In Presto 331, read support for Hive transactional tables was introduced. It works well, if a user creates a new Hive transactional table and reads it from Presto. However, if...
27 Aug 2020 | Manfred Moser
With the help of David’s training about advanced SQL, you composed a number of useful queries. You gained valuable insights from the resulting data. However these complex queries take time...
14 Aug 2020 | Pratham Desai (LinkedIn), James Taylor (Lyft)
Presto 334 adds significant performance improvements for queries accessing nested fields inside struct columns. They have been optimized through the pushdown of dereference expressions. With this feature, the query execution...