Trino
More info
- Creator
- Facebook (Presto), Trino Software Foundation
- Released
- Type
- Distributed SQL engine
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- trino.io
- Source
- github.com/trinodb/trino
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Distributed SQL query engine that reads data where it lives — S3, HDFS, Postgres, Kafka, Elasticsearch — without importing it.
Built at Facebook (2012) as Presto; forked to Trino in 2020 after the Presto-foundation dispute. MPP architecture: a coordinator plans the query, workers execute pieces in parallel. Connectors translate SQL to each source's API — letting you JOIN a Hive table with a Postgres table in a single query.
Not a database — it has no storage of its own. The heart of modern lakehouse stacks (Iceberg, Delta). Starburst commercialises Trino; Athena is AWS managed Presto/Trino.