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Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta
Summary: Meta's Presto is a decade-long, open-source distributed SQL engine for exabyte-scale analytics, optimized for low latency on elastic containers. Upgrades include hierarchical caching, vectorized execution, materialized views, and Presto on Spark, unifying analytics under one engine.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6693
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 5.453017e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,537 | 61.52%
- DOI
-
10.1145/3589769
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4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,641 |
AQETuner: Reliable Query-level Configuration Tuning for Analytical Query Engines |
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4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,772 |
Scribe: How Meta transports terabytes per second in real time |
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4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,858 |
LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics |
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2024 |
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4.1905499e-05 |
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| 9 |
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| 66 |
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2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00061707583 |
| 109 |
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets |
2010 |
VLDB |
0.00048217028 |
| 167 |
The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00039408116 |
| 185 |
DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00036529607 |
| 395 |
One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00024440144 |
| 739 |
Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores |
2020 |
VLDB |
0.00017365933 |
| 787 |
Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
0.00016624372 |
| 964 |
G-CORE: A Core for Future Graph Query Languages |
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| 1,273 |
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SIGMOD |
0.00012870386 |
| 1,939 |
Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00010019433 |
| 2,060 |
Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale |
2020 |
VLDB |
9.6585115e-05 |
| 2,472 |
Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
8.7156826e-05 |
| 2,504 |
Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
8.629969e-05 |
| 2,533 |
Velox: Meta’s Unified Execution Engine |
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VLDB |
8.5870599e-05 |
| 3,344 |
F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale |
2018 |
VLDB |
7.1944106e-05 |
| 4,666 |
Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing |
2020 |
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6.005349e-05 |
| 6,716 |
Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse |
2023 |
CIDR |
4.9462431e-05 |
| 8,353 |
Cubrick: Indexing Millions of Records per Second for Interactive Analytics |
2016 |
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4.5331059e-05 |
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