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Presto: Interacting with Petabytes of Data at Facebook
Hacker News discussion on Facebook's newly open-sourced Presto SQL engine, capable of querying petabytes of data interactively. A watershed moment — before Presto, interactive SQL at Facebook scale wasn't possible.
Facebook Unveils Presto for 250 PB Data Warehouse
GigaOm's coverage of Facebook unveiling Presto, their distributed SQL query engine for interactive queries against a 250 petabyte data warehouse. Presto addressed the core limitation of Hive — batch latency — by using a pipelined execution model that avoided writing intermediate results to disk.
