Comparison

Presto vs Trino

No leader: the top candidate Presto has only 0.33 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Presto55
Trino52
Score
Vioscale score
Presto55 / 100low · 33%
Trino52 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
Presto
Trino
Model
Price level
Prestofree
Trinofree
Transparent
Presto
Trino
Integrations
Count
Presto
Trino18
Adoption
Dependent repos
Presto441
Trino468
Github stars
Presto16,724
Trino13,183
Activity
Commits last 30d
Presto100
Trino100
Release
Cadence days
Presto47
Trino45
History
Presto17 items
Trino7 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
PrestoJava
TrinoJava
Market
Availability
Presto

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
PrestoSelf-hosted
TrinoSelf-hosted
Architecture
Architecture
PrestoSeparated storage/compute
TrinoCoupled MPP
Compute model
Presto-
TrinoClusters
Query
SQL dialect
PrestoANSI SQL
TrinoANSI SQL
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Presto
Trino
Interoperability
Table-format support
Presto-
Trino-
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Presto-
Trino-
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Presto-
Trino-
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
PrestoFunctional
Trino-
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Presto-
Trino-
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Presto-
Trino-
Licensing
Licence class
PrestoPermissive OSS
TrinoPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Presto

The fastest open-source SQL query engine for modern data analytics at scale. Enables querying massive datasets across multiple data sources with sub-second performance.

Independently observed

Trino

An open-source SQL query engine built for fast, distributed analytics over large-scale datasets stored in multiple systems. It enables users to query data in place without copying, supporting interactive analytics workloads from single queries to high-volume applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Presto

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source

as of verify ↗

Trino

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Presto
Trino
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Presto
Trino
Self-hosted
Presto
Trino
On-premise
Presto
Trino

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Presto

Not documented yet.

Trino

18 total
  • Grafana
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache DolphinScheduler
  • Coginiti
  • Cube
  • DBeaver
  • dbt
  • DbVisualizer
  • Emacs
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Superset
  • R
  • Hadoop
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.