The thing I wonder about with Presto and to a lesser extent Spark is, how many of their users adopted this tool because it was an easy migration path from Hive, and how many of those users will eventually re-platform to something else?
I mean, the hive migration path is one thing. Now that Iceberg is taking over the old Hive model, data lakes are all the rage again.
The other thing I would say is that Trino and Presto are not one-trick ponies or just hive replacements. There's also the ability to query across multiple systems that is, to me, the feature that future proofs a lot of architectures. It inherently frees you up to fiddle with your data in different systems but keep the access to that system in one location.
Yeah I think that is the key question: will data lakes become the dominant paradigm? There is certainly a lot of talk around them, though I see a ton of companies are still just going all in on a conventional data warehouse, but they tend not to talk about it because it’s not a new or interesting thing to do.
bitsondatadev|3 years ago
The other thing I would say is that Trino and Presto are not one-trick ponies or just hive replacements. There's also the ability to query across multiple systems that is, to me, the feature that future proofs a lot of architectures. It inherently frees you up to fiddle with your data in different systems but keep the access to that system in one location.
georgewfraser|3 years ago