Trino

A distributed SQL query engine, formerly PrestoSQL, that queries data lakes and many databases where the data lives. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Trino Software Foundation
Created by
Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips
First release
2019
License
Apache-2.0
Open source
Yes
Pricing
Free
Website
https://trino.io
Written in
Java
Data model
Relational
Storage layout
Column-oriented
Workload
Analytics (OLAP)
Analytics architecture
Data lake
Query language
SQL
ACID transactions
No
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: moderate (Writes through connectors, INSERT and CREATE TABLE AS); Read: fast (Distributed queries across many sources); Update: slow (Only where the connector supports it, such as Iceberg); Delete: slow (Only where the connector supports it, such as Iceberg)

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