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by jacquesnadeau 3154 days ago
PrestoDB is similar to Impala, Hive and other SQL Engines. Each is designed to do distributed SQL processing. Dremio does embed an OSS distributed SQL processing engine (Sabot, built natively on Arrow) as well but we see that as only a means to an end. Our focus is much more on being a bi & data fabric/service.

At the core of this vision are: very advanced pushdowns (far beyond other OSS systems), a powerful self-service UI for managing, curating and sharing data (designed for analysts, not just engineers) and--most importantly--the first open source implementation of distributed relational caching for all types of data. You can see more details about this last part in a deck I presented at DataEngConf early today: https://www.slideshare.net/dremio/using-apache-arrow-calcite...