Indexing is Presto’s Prince Charming – Ori Reshef, Varada

Presto revolutionized the data lake. This smart query engine enables organizations to quickly adopt an effective data lake architecture that supports a wide range of workloads and use cases. But everyone needs their “Prince Charming” and this is where indexing enters this fairy tale. Indexing has been widely adopted for database management, but it is only now starting to enter the world of truly big data. In this session, we’ll discuss:

  • How you can effectively index at petabyte scale
  • What is adaptive indexing
  • What is dynamic indexing
  • A reality check: which performance uplift you should expect