The Presto

The Presto Foundation is the organization that oversees the development of the Presto open source project. Facebook, Uber, Twitter, and Alibaba founded the Presto Foundation. Additional members now include Alluxio, Ahana, Upsolver, and Intel. Ahana Cloud for Presto, the subject of this review, is a managed service that simplifies Presto for the cloud. As we&s;ll see, Ahana Cloud for Presto runs on Amazon, has a fairly simple user interface, and has end-to-end cluster lifecycle management. It runs in Kubernetes and is highly scalable. It has a built-in catalog and easy integration with data sources, catalogs, and dashboarding tools. Competitors to Ahana Cloud for Presto include Databricks Delta Lake, Qubole, and BlazingSQL. I will draw comparisons at the end of the article.