Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.

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Two weeks ago, I wrote a post that sparked a pretty overwhelming response. The gist of the post, derived from an interview with database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, was that legacy SQL databases, ...

In a Facebook engineering blog, Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer, announced the creation of a new MySQL branch: WebScaleSQL. This is a version of Oracle's MySQL for gigantic database ...

The Facebook Presto interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine is now open source. Presto is Facebook’s take on Cloudera’s Impala or Google’s Dremel, and it already has some big-name fans in Airnb and Dropbox.

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

It was a quiet week in Apple news, but the company still got snagged in some SQL injection attacks, a former manager was charged with taking kickbacks, and Facebook added check-ins to its iPhone app.