Teradata Partners with Starburst, a New Company Focused on Continuing the Success of the Presto Open Source Project

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading data and analytics company, and Starburst, today announced a strategic relationship to keep the Presto community vibrant, growing and supported. The partnership builds on Teradata's commitment and success with the Presto open source project, leveraging several former Teradata employees – key Presto contributors – who have formed Starburst. The new company will be focused exclusively on accelerating the development of Presto while providing enterprise-grade support to the rapidly expanding Presto user base. Teradata's partnership with Starburst demonstrates a continued commitment to Presto and open source as part of its Teradata Everywhere strategy.

Originally created at Facebook as a successor to the Apache Hive project, Presto is a SQL engine that provides fast, interactive query performance across a wide variety of data sources including HDFS, S3, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, Teradata, and many others. Teradata continues its commitment to Presto as part of Teradata QueryGrid which brings together diverse environments into an orchestrated analytical ecosystem.

"At Teradata, we embrace open source as part of our analytical ecosystem," said Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer at Teradata. "In addition to our extensive work with Presto, Teradata is also driving the open source development of Kylo for data lake ingest and management, and Covalent for user interfaces. With Starburst, we further support the growing adoption of Presto as a foundation for enterprise deployments."

Over the past few years, Teradata has engineered numerous scalability, performance, security and manageability improvements into the core Presto engine. Starburst will continue investing heavily in query engine development while also certifying releases of Presto optimized for QueryGrid to provide Teradata users with the fastest path to query data wherever it may be.

"We are thrilled by the opportunity to pursue our ambitious goals for Presto as a new independent company," said Justin Borgman, Co-founder at Starburst. "Whether you've been using Presto in production for years or you're trying out Presto for the first time, we look forward to working with you to achieve your goals with the best open source SQL engine on the planet."

Relevant news links

• Starburst
• Teradata's Free Presto Download
• Kylo data sheet and press release

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About Starburst

Starburst gives analysts the freedom to work with diverse data sets wherever their location, without compromising on performance.  Using the open source Presto SQL engine, the Starburst Distribution of Presto provides fast, interactive query performance across a wide variety of data sources including HDFS, Amazon S3, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, and Teradata, among others. Founded by the largest team of Presto committers outside of Facebook, Starburst is the only company providing enterprise support for the Presto project.

To learn more about Presto or to download the latest version of Starburst's distribution, please visit starburstdata.com.

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