Presto 0.190 release, Facebook big data query engine

by ddos · Published October 21, 2017 · Updated December 8, 2017

Presto 0.190 has been released, Presto is Facebook open source data query engine, can be more than 250PB data for rapid interactive analysis, the query reached the level of the commercial data warehouse. The performance of the engine is said to be more than 10 times that of Hive.

Presto can query including Hive, Cassandra, and even some commercial data storage products. A single Presto query can merge data from multiple data sources for unified analysis.

General Changes

Fix correctness issue for array_min() and array_max() when arrays contain NaN.
Fix planning failure for queries involving GROUPING that require implicit coercions in expressions containing aggregate functions.
Fix potential workload imbalance when using topology-aware scheduling.

Fix performance regression for queries containing DISTINCT aggregates over the same column.
Fix a memory leak that occurs on workers.
Improve error handling when a HAVING clause contains window functions.

Avoid unnecessary data redistribution when writing when the target table has the same partition property as the data being written.
Ignore case when sorting the output of SHOW FUNCTIONS.
Improve rendering of the BingTile type.

The approx_distinct() function now supports a standard error in the range of [0.0040625, 0.26000].
Add support for ORDER BY in aggregation functions.
Add dictionary processing for joins which can improve join performance up to 50%. This optimization can be disabled using the dictionary-processing-joins-enabled config property or the dictionary_processing_join session property.

Add support for casting to INTERVAL types.
Add ST_Buffer() geospatial function.
Allow treating decimal literals as values of the DECIMAL type rather than DOUBLE. This behavior can be enabled by setting the parse-decimal-literals-as-double config property or the parse_decimal_literals_as_double session property to false.

Add JMX counter to track the number of submitted queries.

Resource Groups Changes

Add priority column to the DB resource group selectors.

Add exact match source selector to the DB resource group selectors.

CLI Changes

Add support for setting client tags.

JDBC Driver Changes

Add getPeakMemoryBytes() to QueryStats.

Accumulo Changes

Improve table scan parallelism.

Hive Changes

Fix query failures for the file-based metastore implementation when partition column values contain a colon.

Improve performance for writing to bucketed tables when the data being written is already partitioned appropriately (e.g., the output is from a bucketed join).
Add config property hive.max-outstanding-splits-size for the maximum amount of memory used to buffer splits for a single table scan. Additionally, the default value is substantially higher than the previous hard-coded limit, which can prevent certain queries from failing.

Thrift Connector Changes