AI engineering glossary · Data engineering

What is trino?

Trino (also called Presto): A distributed SQL query engine that runs interactive queries across many data sources, such as lakes, databases and warehouses, without moving the data first. It is the basis for federated querying.

Level: advancedTopic: Data engineering

Trino: an example

One Trino query joins a table in a data lake with a table in a PostgreSQL database.

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Where you learn it

Trino is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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