Trino Alternatives

Trino reviews and mentions

• Feasibility on startup idea related to data pipelines
  1 project | reddit.com/r/dataengineering | 14 Mar 2022

  For querying various databases, Trino is a distributed SQL query engine that could help - https://trino.io/

• How Does The Data Lakehouse Enhance The Customer Data Stack?
  3 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022

  Processing has also evolved since Hadoop. First, we had the introduction of Spark that offered an API for Map-Reduce that was more user-friendly, and then we got distributed query engines like Trino. These two processing frameworks co-exist most of the time, addressing different needs. Trino is mainly used for analytical online queries where latency is important while Spark is heavily used for bigger workloads (think ETL) where the volume of data is much bigger and latency is not so important.

• Distributed SQL query engine for big data
  1 project | reddit.com/r/techtravel | 22 Dec 2021
• What Is Trino And Why Is It Great At Processing Big Data
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Dec 2021

  Let's be clear. Trino is not a database. This is a misconception. Just because you utilize Trino to run SQL against data, doesn't mean it's a database.

• Learn SQL
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2021

  You might find https://trino.io/ interesting. It allows you to bolt on a MPP SQL execution engine on top of any data source including pre-built connectors for Druid and Kafka.

  It's all ANSI SQL and the best part is you can combine data from heterogenous sources. e.g. You can join data between a topic in Kafka and a table in Druid or even between Kafka, S3 and your RDBMS.

  Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of the project.

• What even is data mesh
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2021

  Not central to the main ideas of this article, but if you want to have a data mesh that is self-service, why force folks to use a particular storage medium like a data warehouse? That still requires centralization of the data.

  Why not instead have a tool like Trino (https://trino.io) that allows you to let different domains use whatever datastore they happen to use. You still would need to enforce schema, but this can be done in tools like schema registry as mentioned in the article along with a data cataloging tool.

  These tools facilitate the distributed nature of the problem nicely and encourage healthy standards to be discussed and the formalized in schema definitions and catalogs that remove the ambiguity of discourse and documentation.

  Nice example is laid out in this repo of how Trino can accomplish data mesh principles 1 and 3 (https://github.com/findinpath/trino_data_mesh).

• What is Cost-based Optimization?
  4 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2021

  In Presto/Trino, the cost is a vector of estimated CPU, memory, and network usage. The vector is also converted into a scalar value during comparison.

• Looking for Feedback: Open Source SQL-in-Markdown Reporting tool
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/SQL | 1 Jun 2021

  Love it! I'd like it to be able to talk to Trino. I'm not sure if there's a driver for node but I could help build it.

• ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2021

  Take a look at query engines like Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) [https://trino.io/]. (Disclaimer: I'm a contributor to Trino).

  I used it at a previous job to combine data from MongoDB, Kafka, S3 and Postgres to great effect. It tries to push-down as many operations as possible to the source too to improve performance.

  Full ANSI SQL support over multiple number of backends (Kafka, Cassandra, Postgres, ClickHouse, S3 and many more).

  The best part is it has a plugin ecosystem so you can very easily implement your own connectors and all the heavy lifting gets done by the core-engine while your plugin only has to abstract your backend to concepts that the engine can understand.

• Why hasn't Presto become industry standard?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2021

  * Active-active HA is not really necessary IMO as Trino is designed for low latency interactive queries in general. It can handle longer running batch queries but it gives up fault tolerance to fail fast and you just resubmit the query vs predecessors like Hive, Spark, etc... that handle ETL and long running batch processes efficiently but this adds complexity to the query to checkpoint the work. I could see the need for an active-passive HA to have on deck during a failure. Setting up your own active-passive HA is as simple as putting two coordinators behind a proxy and pointing your workers to the proxy address. Then you basically have the proxy run health checks and flip over in the event of an outage. Here's the issue to track native HA though https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/391.

• Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2021
• How does AWS Athena manage to load 10GB/s from s3? I've managed 230 mb/s from a c6gn.16xlarge
  1 project | reddit.com/r/aws | 16 Mar 2021

  Checkout https://trino.io (formerly Presto) but is what Athena is based off of. Essentially parallelism allows for this so there’s many worker nodes all reading from S3. You can also run Presto on EMR which is sort of fun looking at the admin UI because it will show you how it breaks the query into parts and fans the work out to worker nodes. Pretty cool because if allowed to (from a resource management perspective), Presto will try to saturate the entire cluster CPU resources to compete the query as fast as possible.

• Looking for paid contributors to open-source project
  1 project | reddit.com/r/golang | 17 Feb 2021

  To a purpose-built in-memory database based on Trino (https://trino.io/)