Application Development Overview

Introduction to Presto

Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes.

Presto has the following characteristics:

• Multiple data sources: Presto supports multiple types of connectors, such as MySQL, Hive, and JMX.
• Support for SQL: Presto supports the ANSI SQL. You can directly run the SQL shell command for query.
• Hybrid computing: You can query multiple catalogs using JOIN.