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Presto¶
Definition¶
Presto is the original distributed SQL query engine from Facebook (open-sourced 2013). After the 2020 governance schism it split into two forks — PrestoDB (under the Linux Foundation / Presto Foundation) and PrestoSQL — with the latter renamed Trino in December 2020.
Role in this wiki¶
Presto appears primarily as the historical predecessor of Trino. Named explicitly in sources/2026-03-24-expedia-operating-trino-at-scale-with-trino-gateway: "Trino — a fork of PrestoSQL — is a powerful tool in modern data analytics."
Its other relevance here is as the ancestor of the gateway pattern: Lyft built Presto Gateway as a proxy and load balancer for PrestoDB, and that gateway was later forked and integrated into the Trino ecosystem as Trino Gateway. The cluster-segregation + workload-aware-routing architecture Expedia describes behind Trino Gateway therefore predates the Trino rename — it is a Presto-era pattern that the Trino ecosystem inherited.
Seen in¶
- sources/2026-03-24-expedia-operating-trino-at-scale-with-trino-gateway — named as the original engine Trino forked from, and as the PrestoDB engine Lyft's Presto Gateway was built for. The gateway concept predates the Trino rename.
Related¶
- systems/trino — the direct post-rename successor.
- systems/trino-gateway — descended from Lyft's Presto Gateway.