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)
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Authors
- 1. Yutian "James" Sun (Meta)
- 2. Tim Meehan (Meta)
- 3. Rebecca Schlussel (Meta)
- 4. Wenlei Xie (Meta)
- 5. Masha Basmanova (Meta)
- 6. Orri Erling (Meta)
- 7. Andrii Rosa (Meta)
- 8. Shixuan Fan (Meta)
- 9. Rongrong Zhong (Meta)
- 10. Arun Thirupathi (Meta)
- 11. Nikhil Collooru (Meta)
- 12. Ke Wang (Meta)
- 13. Sameer Agarwal (Meta)
- 14. Arjun Gupta (Meta)
- 15. Dionysios Logothetis (Meta)
- 16. Kostas Xirogiannopoulos (Meta)
- 17. Amit Dutta (Meta)
- 18. Varun Gajjala (Meta)
- 19. Rohit Jain (Meta)
- 20. Ajay Palakuzhy (Meta)
- 21. Prithvi Pandian (Meta)
- 22. Sergey Pershin (Meta)
- 23. Abhisek Saikia (Meta)
- 24. Pranjal Shankhdhar (Meta)
- 25. Neerad Somanchi (Meta)
- 26. Swapnil Tailor (Meta)
- 27. Jialiang Tan (Meta)
- 28. Sreeni Viswanadha (Meta)
- 29. Zac Wen (Meta)
- 30. Biswapesh Chattopadhyay (Meta)
- 31. Bin Fan (Alluxio, Inc)
- 32. Deepak Majeti (Ahana Cloud, Inc)
- 33. Aditi Pandit (Ahana Cloud, Inc)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{sun_sigmod23,
title = {{Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta}},
author = {Sun, Yutian "James" and Meehan, Tim and Schlussel, Rebecca and Xie, Wenlei and Basmanova, Masha and Erling, Orri and Rosa, Andrii and Fan, Shixuan and Zhong, Rongrong and Thirupathi, Arun and Collooru, Nikhil and Wang, Ke and Agarwal, Sameer and Gupta, Arjun and Logothetis, Dionysios and Xirogiannopoulos, Kostas and Dutta, Amit and Gajjala, Varun and Jain, Rohit and Palakuzhy, Ajay and Pandian, Prithvi and Pershin, Sergey and Saikia, Abhisek and Shankhdhar, Pranjal and Somanchi, Neerad and Tailor, Swapnil and Tan, Jialiang and Viswanadha, Sreeni and Wen, Zac and Chattopadhyay, Biswapesh and Fan, Bin and Majeti, Deepak and Pandit, Aditi},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589769},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589769},
year = {2023}
}
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