presto
The premium Open Source alternative to Snowflake
🎯 Best for:Enterprises needing to run SQL queries across massive, heterogeneous data lakes.
What is presto?
Replaces expensive data warehousing solutions with a high-performance distributed SQL engine for federated data. It allows querying data across HDFS, S3, and relational databases without moving the data.
Tech Stack
JavaDatabase & Storage
Why presto?
- • Massive scalability
- • Connects to dozens of sources
- • High concurrency support
Limitations
- • High operational complexity
- • Memory intensive
- • No native storage layer
3/5/2026
Last Update
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Forks
2,825
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Snowflake)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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