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Re:Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook by bugger on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:05PM (#6685505)
How complete is the SQL dialect? Are nested queries supported? I was surprised to see that the ANTLR grammar is only ~900 lines; a quick perusal didn't suggest to me that nested queries are supported, but I'm not a guru...
Re:Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook by cakeface on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:14PM (#6685547)
> It currently supports a large subset of ANSI SQL, including joins, left/right outer joins, subqueries,and most of the common aggregate and scalar functions, including approximate distinct counts (using HyperLogLog) and approximate percentiles (based on quantile digest). The main restrictions at this stage are a size limitation on the join tables and cardinality of unique keys/groups. The system also lacks the ability to write output data back to tables (currently query results are streamed to the client).