Trino System Properties

Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine designed for analytics of large datasets distributed over one or more data sources in object storage, databases and other systems. Characteristics include:

• Highly performant for OLAP use cases at massive scale, suitable to query terabytes of data
• Rich support for standard ANSI SQL queries for all connected data sources (SQL language, SQL statement syntax, Functions and operators)
• Numerous connectors to enable querying disparate data sources, including object storage data lakes with Hive, Iceberg, or Delta Lake, RDBMS systems such PostgreSQL, MySQL, other systems such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Clickhouse, Pinot, and many more
• Deployment options include baremetal, virtual machine, and container-based systems

• High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets
• Powerful ANSI SQL support
• Support for querying any connected data source within the same query
• Rich ecosystem of integrations and tools to use

• Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses
• Central access point for reporting, dashboarding, and analytics of all connected sources
• Embedded query engine in data platform for analytics and data processing workloads

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software. Users include well-known companies such as Amazon, LinkedIn, Lyft, Netflix, Pinterest, Shopify, Stripe and many others. See the user testimonials for more details.

The commercial distributions Starburst Enterprise and Starburst Galaxy are used by customers such as Comcast.  Verizon, FINRA, DBS Bank, Lucid, Zalando, and many others.

Trino is the embedded engine in many services including AWS Athena, and others.

• 28250+ commits in GitHub
• 5750+ stargazers in GitHub
• 6950+ pull requests merged in GitHub
• 4000+ issues created in GitHub
• 3750+ followers on Twitter
• 7350+ members in Slack
• 650+ average weekly members in Slack
• 1050+ subscribers in YouTube
• 39 Trino Community Broadcast episodes

Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free.

Commercial offerings from Starburst include Starburst Enterprise for self-managed deployments, and the managed software-as-service Starburst Galaxy.

Free trial versions are available for both products. Detailed pricing for commercial usage depends on deployment size and includes metrics like vCPU usage and other details.

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48: What is Trino?
31 May 2023

Trino at Open Source Summit North America 2023
15 May 2023

47: Meet the new Trino maintainers
5 May 2023

Refreshing at the lakehouse summer camp
3 May 2023