Tutorial Presto 8.8 [upd] May 2026

Presto 0.208 Tutorial

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Presto
2. Setting up Presto
3. Basic Presto Query Language
4. Running Queries
5. Using Catalogs and Schemas

8.3 Spill to Disk (Essential for limited RAM)

SET SESSION spill_enabled = true;
SET SESSION join_spill_enabled = true;
SET SESSION aggregation_spill_enabled = true;

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1.1 Download Presto 8.8

Navigate to the official PrestoDB release page or use wget: Presto 0

wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prestosql/presto-server/8.8/presto-server-8.8.tar.gz
tar -xzf presto-server-8.8.tar.gz
sudo mv presto-server-8.8 /usr/local/presto

Part 3: Configuring Catalogs in Presto 8.8

Presto’s superpower is its connector architecture. Let’s set up three common catalogs. Introduction to Presto Setting up Presto Basic Presto

Part 8: Real-World Use Case – Interactive Analytics Dashboard

Let’s simulate a real e-commerce dashboard query that aggregates data from MySQL (transactions) and Hive (user profiles).

WITH daily_sales AS (
    SELECT
        DATE(payment_time) AS sale_date,
        user_id,
        SUM(amount) AS revenue
    FROM mysql.production.payments
    WHERE payment_time >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '7' DAY
    GROUP BY 1, 2
)
SELECT
    d.sale_date,
    u.country,
    AVG(d.revenue) AS avg_revenue_per_user,
    COUNT(DISTINCT d.user_id) AS active_users
FROM daily_sales d
JOIN hive.user_profiles u ON d.user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY d.sale_date, u.country
ORDER BY d.sale_date DESC;

In Presto 8.8, this query executes in seconds even if payments has billions of rows, thanks to dynamic filtering and efficient pushdowns.