Presto Powered Cloud Data Lakes At Speed Made Easy With Ahana

Sep 2, 2021

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The Presto project has become the de facto option for building scalable open source analytics in SQL for the data lake. In recent months the community has focused their efforts on making it the fastest possible option for running your analytics in the cloud. In this episode Dipti Borkar discusses the work that she and her team are doing at Ahana to simplify the work of running your own PrestoDB environment in the cloud. She explains how they are optimizin the runtime to reduce latency and increase query throughput, the ways that they are contributing back to the open source community, and the exciting improvements that are in the works to make Presto an even more powerful option for all of your analytics.

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Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Dipti Borkar, cofounder Ahana about Presto and Ahana, SaaS managed service for Presto

Interview

Introduction
How did you get involved in the area of data management?
Can you describe what Ahana is and the story behind it?
There has been a lot of recent activity in the Presto community. Can you give an overview of the options that are available for someone wanting to use its SQL engine for querying their data?
- What is Ahana’s role in the community/ecosystem?
- (happy to skip this question if it’s too contentious) What are some of the notable differences that have emerged over the past couple of years between the Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) and PrestoDB projects?
Another area that has been seeing a lot of activity is data lakes and projects to make them more manageable and feature complete (e.g. Hudi, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Nessie, LakeFS, etc.). How has that influenced your product focus and capabilities?
- How does this activity change the calculus for organizations who are deciding on a lake or warehouse for their data architecture?
Can you describe how the Ahana Cloud platform is architected?
- What are the additional systems that you have built to manage deployment, scaling, and multi-tenancy?
Beyond the storage and processing, what are the other notable tools and projects that have become part of the overall stack for supporting open analytics?
What are some areas of ongoing activity that you are keeping an eye on as you build out the Ahana offerings?
What are the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen Ahana/Presto used?
What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while working on Ahana?
When is Ahana the wrong choice?
What do you have planned for the future of Ahana?

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LinkedIn
@dborkar on Twitter

Parting Question

From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

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The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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