Ashish Thapliyal shows how to install Presto on an HDInsight cluster:
What is Presto?
Presto is a distributed SQL query engine optimized for ad-hoc analysis at interactive speed. It supports standard ANSI SQL, including complex queries, aggregations, joins, and window functions. Presto is becoming popular SQL interactive query engine that has grabbed the attention and mind-share in Big data communities.
What are the key advantages of Presto?
1- It’s very fast – Presto was designed and written from the ground up for interactive analytics and approaches the speed of commercial data warehouses.
2- Presto can query data where it lives – Presto supports many data sources via the number of connectors that community has built. You can query HDFS , Hive, Azure Storage or data stored in SQL Server , My SQL , CosmosDB or Cassandra etc.
You can install Presto in one simple step with HDInsight Script Action feature
Read on for instructions and showing how to connect this to other Azure products like CosmosDB and Azure SQL Database.