Facebook goes open source with query engine for big data | Linux Today

Facebook goes open source with query engine for big data

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Joab Jackson
Nov 7, 2013

Potentially raising the bar on SQL scalability, Facebook has released as open source a SQL query engine it developed called Presto that was built to work with petabyte-sized data warehouses.

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