[1] Trino can query data lakes that contain a variety of file formats such as simple row-oriented CSV and JSON data files to more performant open column-oriented data file formats like ORC or Parquet[2][3] residing on different storage systems like HDFS, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage[4] using the Hive[2] and Iceberg[3] table formats.

They initially kept the name Presto and used the PrestoSQL web handle to distinguish it from the original PrestoDB project.

The foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the Presto open source distributed SQL query engine.

The Trino Software Foundation, code base, and all other PrestoSQL assets were renamed as part of the rebrand.

[9] Presto and Trino were originally designed and developed by Martin, Dain, David, and Eric Hwang at Facebook to allow data analysts to run interactive queries on its large data warehouse in Apache Hadoop.