Apache Presto is an open source distributed SQL engine. Presto originated at Facebook for data analytics needs and later was open sourced. Now, Teradata joins Presto community and offers support.

Apache Presto is very useful for performing queries even petabytes of data. Extensible architecture and storage plugin interfaces are very easy to interact with other file systems. Most of today’s best industrial companies are adopting Presto for its interactive speeds and low latency performance.

This tutorial explores Presto architecture, configuration, and storage plugins. It discusses the basic and advanced queries and finally concludes with real-time examples.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for professionals aspiring to make a career in Big Data Analytics. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on Apache Presto.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you must have a good understanding of Core Java, DBMS and any of the Linux operating systems.