Trino 476 Arrives on Qubole: Faster, Smarter, and Cloud-Native

When we introduced Trino 447 on Qubole, it marked the beginning of a new chapter—bringing the power of Trino’s fast, federated SQL engine to our platform.

Now, we’re excited to announce that Trino 476, the latest release from the Trino community, is now available on Qubole! This milestone underlines our commitment to keeping Qubole users on the most up-to-date and powerful open-source analytics engine available.

With Trino 476, you don’t just get incremental improvements—you gain access to the very latest features, optimizations, and security enhancements, delivered in lockstep with the global Trino community.

🔑 What’s New in Trino 476

Trino 476 brings significant improvements across performance, reliability, and ecosystem integrations—making it one of the most feature-rich releases yet. Here are some highlights:

• Native S3 File System Support
  • HDFS is disabled by default in Trino 470+, and Qubole now uses Trino’s native S3 filesystem, offering faster, more reliable access to cloud object storage.
  • This also reduces throttling issues and improves compatibility with S3-compliant systems.
• Stronger Lakehouse Integrations
  
  • Iceberg & Delta Lake: Added support for advanced time travel queries (FOR TIMESTAMP AS OF), schema evolution, and better handling of concurrent writes.
    
  • Metadata & Performance: Optimized query planning for materialized views, faster split generation, and richer metrics in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
• Performance & Reliability Gains
  
  • Improved cost-based optimizer and query planner performance for complex federated joins.
    
  • Reduced S3 throttling failures and improved retry logic for S3 operations.
    
  • Fixes for rare query failures when handling complex row types, mixed-case catalogs, or large ORC/Parquet datasets.
• Security & Governance Enhancements
  
  • Expanded Apache Ranger integration for fine-grained access control.
    
  • Added support for user-assigned managed identities on AzureFS, strengthening enterprise authentication.
• Connector Upgrades Across the Board
  
  • Hive, Iceberg, and Delta connectors all gain new S3 signer type support, better metadata performance, and enhanced Glue catalog compatibility.
    
  • BigQuery, Snowflake, and Kafka connectors received updates, including security changes and JVM configuration improvements.
    
  • Federated query joins (ClickHouse, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server, and others) are now significantly faster.
• Breaking Changes
  
  • Trino now requires JDK 24.
    
  • Kafka Event Listener config has changed (client-config-overrides removed).
    
  • Example HTTP connector removed from distribution.
    

View the Trino 476 full changelog here

With these improvements, Trino 476 offers not just incremental speed boosts, but also enterprise-ready reliability, lakehouse-native features, and stronger cloud storage performance.

💡 Why This Matters for Qubole Users

By upgrading to Trino 476, Qubole ensures you always run on the most advanced and current version of Trino, with no lag behind the open-source community. This means:

✅ Latest Trino capabilities—your teams can immediately leverage the newest features.
✅ Cloud-native performance with the new S3 FileSystem for reliability and speed.
✅ Future-ready lakehouse support with advanced Iceberg and Delta Lake integrations.
✅ Enterprise-grade security with pluggable governance models.

In short, Qubole Trino is not only up-to-date, but also optimized for modern data architectures.

🚀 Get Started with Trino 476 on Qubole

It’s easy to spin up a Trino 476 cluster. Simply go to the Clusters page in Qubole, choose Trino, and select engine version 476. No workflow changes are required—your existing Presto/Trino SQL workloads run seamlessly, now with native S3 performance.

📘 Learn more about cluster setup here:
Qubole Cluster Basics Documentation

🔮 Looking Ahead

With the release of Trino 476, Qubole strengthens its commitment to keeping customers on the latest Trino releases—ensuring you always benefit from the most recent community-driven innovations.

As Trino continues to evolve, so will Qubole. Expect ongoing updates, faster performance, deeper integrations, and better governance support—all delivered natively on our platform.

Whether you’re running ad-hoc analytics, powering BI dashboards, or building production pipelines—Trino 476 on Qubole is the fastest, most reliable way to query your data lake.

We can’t wait to see what you build with it! 🚀