[2] Hive was deemed too slow for Facebook's scale and Presto was invented to fill the gap to run fast queries.
[6] In 2017, Teradata spun out a company called Starburst Data to commercially support Presto, which included staff acquired from Hadapt in 2014.
The foundation is a not-for-profit organization for the advancement of the Presto open source distributed SQL query engine.
[13] In December 2020, PrestoSQL was rebranded as Trino, since Facebook had obtained a trademark on the name "Presto" (also donated to the Linux Foundation).
[14] Another company called Ahana was announced in 2020 to commercialize the PrestoDB fork as a cloud service and was acquired by IBM in 2023.
[15] Presto's architecture is very similar to other database management systems using cluster computing, sometimes called massively parallel processing (MPP).