The Open Source Data Warehouse Killer in the Cloud

Join us for an insightful session on how Presto outshines other SQL data processing engines. Presto is a distributed ANSI SQL engine designed for running interactive analytics queries. Ben Roubicek (Sr. Solution Architect) will show how Presto works great when used for business intelligence (BI) or data discovery because of its ability to join terabytes of unstructured and structured data in seconds, or cache queries intermittently for a rapid response upon later runs. Presto can also be used in place of other well known interactive open-source query engine such as Impala, Hive or traditional SQL data warehouses.

At this event, you will learn...

• Why Presto is better suited for ad-hoc queries than other engines like Apache Spark
• How to jumpstart analysts across your organization to harness the power of your big data
• How to generate interactive or ad hoc queries or scheduled reports using Qubole and Presto
• Real-world examples of companies using Presto

Speaker: Ben Roubicek (Sr. Solutions Architect @ Qubole)

Ben has 15 years of experience in Java, Python, RDBMS, and more recently Big Data. In addition, he's held every engineering title ranging from Engineer to CTO.

Big Data Bellevue Meetup was created by Intelius and takes place in downtown Bellevue. Intelius provides the only centralized service for delivering comprehensive information about people, places, organizations, and their connection to each other. Our state-of-the-art big data technology platform is utilized across a wide range of industries to implement specific solutions.

On the third Wednesday of each month, we invite an industry leader in Big Data to give a presentation followed by a lively discussion on big data technology and its impact on business world. Past speakers include researchers from the University of Washington, as well as senior members of various companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, IBM, MapR and inome.

Details of the talk will be posted here soon!

eBay graciously provides free drink and pizza!