What’s Presto Summit? It’s the leading Presto conference co-organized by our partner Starburst Data and the Presto Software Foundation.
Overview of the Summit
- Presto is among the fastest growing open source analytical query frameworks with production use cases across industries such as retail, telco, tech and more
- This was a full house event at Twitter HQ with more than 150 attendees
- Excellent keynote on the future of Presto delivered by Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, and David Phillips – the co-creators of Presto and co-founders of the Presto Software Foundation (slides)
What We Learned
- Presto is high performance and has rich functionalities designed for interactive SQL queries
- Rise of cloud deployments of Presto both all cloud as well as hybrid cloud are growing. There is a need to simplify hybrid deployments which currently include making copies of data in the cloud and in some cases to HDFS and managing the Hadoop cluster.
- Big data workloads are increasingly looking for simpler compute orchestration and adopting Kubernetes. Starburst Presto announced a new Kubernetes operator to simplify deployment and scaling of clusters.
Reasons to try the Presto, Alluxio, and Any Storage Stack
- High query performance without operational overhead of data copying or ETL
- Query on data anywhere: hybrid, public cloud, on-premise
- Consistent and low latency
Learn more: Starburst Presto and Alluxio announce strategic OEM partnership | Presto with Alluxio | Download Alluxio
Additional resources:
- Community office hour (virtual): Building Fast SQL Analytics with Presto, Alluxio, and S3
- Got questions? Chat with Alluxio experts on Slack
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Blog
Learn about the new features in Alluxio AI 3.8 designed to eliminate two of the most painful bottlenecks in modern AI pipelines. Introducing Alluxio S3 Write Cache, which dramatically reduces object store write latency and improves write-heavy workload performance, and Safetensors Model Loading Acceleration that delivers near-local NVMe throughput for model weight loading
For write-heavy AI and analytics workloads, cloud object storage can become the primary bottleneck. This post introduces how Alluxio S3 Write Cache decouples performance from backend limits, reducing write latency up to 8X - down to ~4–6 ms for concurrent and bursty PUT workloads.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has published a technical solution blog demonstrating how Alluxio on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers exceptional performance for AI and machine learning workloads, achieving sub-millisecond average latency, near-linear scalability, and over 90% GPU utilization across 350 accelerators.