# prestodb/presto

The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data

Repository: https://github.com/prestodb/presto
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/presto
Homepage: http://prestodb.io
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: java, presto, hive, hadoop, big-data, sql, data, lakehouse, query
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:32:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 89, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5138, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 77, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 17}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 16724, forks 5542 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:17.045346+00:00)

## What it is
Presto is a distributed SQL query engine for running interactive queries against large datasets across heterogeneous data sources such as Hive, object storage, and relational databases. It is a Java-based server that scales horizontally across a cluster and supports ANSI SQL with connectors for many backends.

## Use cases
- run interactive SQL queries on data in S3 or HDFS
- federate queries across multiple databases and data lakes
- query Hive tables with low latency
- build a lakehouse analytics layer over Parquet files
- ad-hoc analytics on petabyte-scale datasets
- replace Hive for faster big data SQL workloads

## When to choose
- you need fast, interactive SQL over large distributed datasets
- you want to query many heterogeneous sources through one SQL interface
- you operate a data lake or lakehouse and need a mature query engine

## When to avoid
- you need a small embedded or single-node database
- you want heavy transactional OLTP workloads
- you prefer a simpler managed warehouse without cluster operations

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: database, search-engine, etl, analytics
- domain: big-data, databases, analytics
- platform: jvm, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: distributed-sql, query-engine, federated-queries, lakehouse, hive, trino-predecessor, data-engineering, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- prestodb/presto (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.045346+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:04:46.922276+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/prestodb/presto (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.045346+00:00, sha 69c830d27a89)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.