November 3, 2019

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Presto: Distributed SQL on anything (sponsored by Teradata)

Presto: Distributed SQL on anything (sponsored by Teradata)

Teradata joined the Presto community in 2015 and is now a leading contributor to this open source SQL engine, originally created by Facebook. Join Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski to learn about Presto, Teradata's recent enhancements in query performance, security integrations, and ANSI SQL coverage, and its roadmap for 2017 and beyond.
Talk Title Presto: Distributed SQL on anything (sponsored by Teradata)
Speakers Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (Starburst)
Conference Strata + Hadoop World
Conf Tag Big Data Expo
Location San Jose, California
Date March 14-16, 2017
URL Talk Page
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Teradata joined the Presto community in 2015 and is now a leading contributor to this open source SQL engine, originally created by Facebook. The project has a rapidly growing community of users, including Airbnb, FINRA, Netflix, Twitter, and Uber. Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski explores the key architectural components that allow querying variety of data sources and make Presto uniquely position to be applied in both Hadoop and Cloud use cases. Along the way, Kamil covers Teradata’s recent enhancements in query performance, security integrations, and ANSI SQL coverage and shares the roadmap for 2017 and beyond. This session is sponsored by Teradata.

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