Facebook Implements Open Source Engine for Bigdata
Nick Shopov | 17/11/2013 20:25

Trendy as it is!
Facebook replies to the BigData trend by announcing PrestoDB engine support. Over 1,000 Facebook employees use Presto daily to run more than 30,000 queries that in total scan over a petabyte each per day. Pesto is one of the newly emerged SQL query engines that try to efficiently tackle the large Hadoop data sets. Other solutions worth looking at include Hawq and Impala.
Let’s dive into #BigData. Be back later :)