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The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data

26 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 3 stories, 23 comments · first 2013-11-06 · latest 2025-11-14

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  1. No, Presto ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto ) remains alive and well, just Trino gets more attention.
    comment by tbcj · 2025-11-14 · in 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
  2. Presto is actively switching to use Velox as the backend ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto/tree/master/presto-native... ) . It is also being used extensively internally, again the paper describes these and their usages have grown , not…
    comment by kgp7 · 2024-03-26 · in Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine [pdf]
  3. We have some of this functionality in Presto ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto ), but it takes fair bit of work to implement it for all the different backends.
    comment by zacblanco · 2024-01-29 · in Multi-database support in DuckDB
  4. …We got lower memory usage that didn't grow over time by switching to jemalloc. Example of this: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/8993
    comment by singron · 2023-11-29 · in Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
  5. …- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31981568 , https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot Presto - https://github.com/prestodb/presto
    comment by deemarklit · 2023-07-14 · in Ask HN: recommending a SQL transpiler
  6. It's probably the same thing prestodb encountered: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/8993
    comment by Birch-san · 2022-09-03 · in Native Minecraft servers with GraalVM Native Image
  7. …to the OS. You can increase the incentive for it to do so, by reducing MALLOC_ARENA_MAX to 2. https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/8993
    comment by Birch-san · 2022-09-03 · in Native Minecraft servers with GraalVM Native Image
  8. …[4] https://github.com/codeschool/sqlite-parser [5] https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser [6] https://github.com/prestodb/presto
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-08-19 · in Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
  9. …only are some of the initial developers but all of the creators and the majority of contributors ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto/graphs/contributors?from=... ) and still have contributed the majority of the code in both Presto (…
    comment by bitsondatadev · 2021-02-17 · in Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
  10. …by hand-writing the parser. [0] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/catalyst/src... [1] https://github.com/prestodb/presto/blob/master/presto-parser... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/src/comp...
    comment by rajnathani · 2020-03-05 · in Why not to use (f)lex, yacc or bison
  11. …any malloc really). As an example and contrary to wozer's comment, Java is affected by this: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/8993
    comment by mbell · 2019-03-14 · in What causes Ruby memory bloat?
  12. …lighter language all else equal. [3] As a Guice fan I recommend checking out the Presto codebase ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto ) - lovely and extensive (perhaps a tad too much :) use of Guice, and extraordinarily high quality…
    comment by wrmsr · 2018-02-28 · in How should I learn Java Web Development?
  13. …connector and it doesn't look like there is support for dynamically adding/removing catalogs ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/2445 ) but it would presumably handle the heavy lifting for you.
    comment by fomojola · 2017-05-16 · in Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
  14. …We use this in Presto for parsing SQL and generating an immutable AST: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/blob/master/presto-parser... https://github.com/prestodb/presto/blob/master/presto-parser...
    comment by electrum · 2017-03-21 · in Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser
  15. Facebook Presto, a MPP SQL Engine written in Java. https://github.com/prestodb/presto I have learned a lot from reading the source code and watching it develop. It is written in modern Java 8. The authors are obviously experts of the…
    comment by nfa_backward · 2017-02-12 · in Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?
  16. You can write modern software on Java without using "enterprise" features: https://github.com/prestodb/presto
    comment by electrum · 2017-01-23 · in What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe
  17. …You would just add the Java agent line to your Spark config i.e. spark.executor.extraJavaOptions. https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/4004 Although you have to distribute the library across to all of the data nodes (if using YARN) or…
    comment by threeseed · 2016-09-01 · in Apache Spark Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case
  18. Presto has great source code too, check it out: http://github.com/prestodb/presto
    comment by lambdafunc · 2016-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  19. Presto also has a high quality codebase: https://github.com/facebook/presto
    comment by lambdafunc · 2016-03-16 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
  20. Surprised that no one mentioned Facebook's Presto project: https://github.com/facebook/presto Presto team is just awesome.
    comment by lambdafunc · 2015-11-30 · in Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
  21. …indexes on its tables, importantly missing DELETE, UPDATE and INTERSECT; amongst others) - Presto < https://github.com/facebook/presto> from Facebook (can query Hive, Cassandra < http://cassandra.apache.org> , relational DBs &etc. Doesn't…
    comment by mping · 2015-02-06 · in Impala: a modern, open-source SQL engine for Hadoop
  22. Symlinks work for gh-pages. We use it for linking to the current version of the docs: https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/gh-pages/docs http://prestodb.io/docs/current/
    comment by electrum · 2014-04-10 · in Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects
  23. …for flat binary records or plain HDFS, but you can take a look at the Hive connector here: https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/master/presto-hive/s... We're also working on a example connector that can read from files/urls. We should…
    comment by mtraverso · 2013-11-06 · in Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook