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Published inNov 2021

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ISBN-139781800562349

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Anthony Virtuoso

Mert Turkay Hocanin

Aaron Wishnick

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What is Presto?

As we have mentioned a few times already, Athena is based on a fork of the Presto open source project. By understanding Presto, what it is, and how it works, we can gain greater insight into Athena.

Presto is a distributed SQL engine designed to provide response times in the order of seconds for interactive data analysis. While it may be tempting to do so, it is essential not to confuse Presto with a database or data warehouse as Presto has no storage of its own. Instead, Presto relies on a suite of connectors to plug in different storage systems such as HDFS, Amazon S3, RDBMS, and many other sources you may wish to analyze. This simple but inventive approach allows Presto to offer the same consistent SQL interface regardless of where your data lives. It's also why Athena claims that "there is no need for complex ETL jobs to prepare your data for analysis."

If you have an existing data lake, you may be familiar with Apache Hive or Hadoop tools...

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Anthony Virtuoso

Anthony Virtuoso works as a Principal Engineer at Amazon and holds multiple patents in distributed systems, software defined networks, and security. In his eight years at Amazon, he has helped launch several Amazon Web Services, the most recent of which was Amazon Managed Blockchain. As one of the original authors of Athena Query Federation, you'll often find him lurking on the Athena Federation GitHub repository answering questions and shipping bug fixes. When not at work, Anthony obsesses over a different set of customers, namely his wife and two little boys, aged 2 and 5. His kids enjoy doing science experiments with dad, like 3D printing toys, building with Lego, or searching the local pond for tardigrades.
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Mert Turkay Hocanin

Mert Turkay Hocanin is a Principal Big Data Architect at Amazon Web Services within the AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation services and has previously worked for several other services including Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Managed Blockchain. During his time at AWS, he worked with several Fortune 500 companies on some of the largest data lakes in the world and was involved with the launching of three Amazon Web Services. Prior to being a Big Data Architect, he was a Senior Software Developer within Amazon's retail systems organization building one of the earliest data lakes in the company in 2013. When he is not helping customers build data lakes, he enjoys spending time with his wife-Subrina, son-Tristan, and exploring New York City.
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Aaron Wishnick

Aaron Wishnick works as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon, where he has been for 7 years. During that time he has worked on Amazon's payment systems, financial intelligence systems, as well as working for AWS on Athena and AWS Proton. When not at work, Aaron and his fiance, Alyssa, are on a quest to determine just how much dog fur is too much, with their husky and malamute, Mina and Wally.
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