Run Trino queries 2.7 times faster with Amazon EMR 6.15.0
Big Data Blog
This article discusses performance improvements in running Trino queries on Amazon EMR 6.15.0 compared to open source Trino. According to the benchmark results, Trino queries ran up to 2.7 times faster on Amazon EMR 6.15.0 Trino 426 compared to open source Trino 426.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Benchmark setup using a 3 TB TPC-DS dataset on Amazon S3
- Performance results showing up to 2.7x faster total query runtime and up to 160x improvement for a specific query on Amazon EMR Trino
- Key optimizations developed by AWS, including join order and join type selection using S3 file metadata when table statistics are not available
- Conclusion highlighting the performance benefits of running Trino on Amazon EMR or Athena over open source Trino
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