Presto

6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2019 by Justin Borgman · said 43 times in 10 episodes since 2014 · across every show →

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brought up most by Justin Borgman (23), Matt Turck (6), Praveen Murugesan (3), Dave Burgess (3), Savin Goyal (2), Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) (2), Tobi Knaup (1), Solmaz Shahalizadeh (1)

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Mar 19, 2019 negative
Opinion
Borgman: Apache Spark is not built to support high concurrency workloads
“Anyone who's trying to do high concurrency will usually realize that Spark is not built for high concurrency.”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 18:41 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019
Assertion Supported
Borgman: AWS Athena runs on Presto under the covers
“Athena actually runs on Presto under the covers, so that is the technology behind Athena.”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 3:27 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Borgman: Major global ride-sharing platforms run Presto for data analytics
“Most of the world's ride-sharing companies around the world actually run Presto for their analytics because of that, so You know, that's Lyft here in the US that's GrabTaxi in Singapore, that's OlaCabs in India, that's Kareem in the Middle East.”
Justin Borgman Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 16:52 Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 17, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Netflix uses S3, Spark, Presto, and Snowflake for data querying
“We use SG as so like the storage layer for our data warehouse, and we use Spark, Presto, Snowflake as our query engines.”
Savin Goyal Feb 17, 2021 ▶ 3:23 Fireside Chat: Savin Goyal (ML Infra team (Metaflow), Netflix) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Borgman: Presto is mostly Facebook internal, while Trino is the mainstream branch
“They started as identical copies, but the code bases have diverged quite a bit. And today Presto is really just used by Facebook. So it's sort of like their own private branch in a way used by a small number of people. And Trino has become the mainstream commu…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 13:00 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Jan 30, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Borgman: Facebook ran all data warehousing analytics on Presto
“It was really how Facebook was running all of their data warehousing analytics.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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