Talk:Presto (SQL query engine): Difference between revisions

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[[User:Brianolsen2|Brianolsen2]] ([[User talk:Brianolsen2|talk]]) 17:02, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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== Merger proposal ==

[[User:Frap|Frap]] has proposed to merge the [[Presto_(SQL_query_engine) |Presto]] article into the [[Trino_(SQL_query_engine) |Trino]] article. A merger proposal wasn't added so I am adding one and am happy to let Frap describe their reasons for this proposal. Until then I will list some of the pros and cons to this in my opinion as a Developer Advocate on the Trino project and employee at a vendor built a top of Trino, Starburst.

To me, these pages are separate for a reason. The projects have distinct foundations (Presto with the Presto Foundation under the Linux Foundation and Trino under the Trino Software Foundation). The projects have diverged significantly <ref>https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/02/leaving-facebook-meta-best-for-trino.html</ref>. There are a significant number of projects that exist in Trino (such as support for fault-tolerance <ref>https://trino.io/blog/2022/05/05/tardigrade-launch.html</ref>), that do not exist in Presto. Likewise, Presto has started to move their efforts to supporting integration with Meta project Velox<ref>https://engineering.fb.com/2022/08/31/open-source/velox/</ref> which Trino does not plan on supporting.

Many other projects<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_forks</ref> have a separate wiki page for multiple forks. Trino and Presto have already been added to this list, to help clarify this.

The biggest advantage to keeping these two separate is that people interested in learning more about the technologies have a clear understanding that these are now two distinct projects that share history. Depending on the context that they are learning, it can be confusing if someone searches for Trino and winds up on a Presto page to a different project and also it would be just as confusing if they were searching for the Facebook Presto project and wound up on a Trino page. The articles were written in such a way that they reference each other well and make the shared history clear while providing facts about each of the individual projects moving forward. This also avoids [[Wikipedia:Content_forking]].

For these reasons, I propose against merging these two articles.

[[User:Brianolsen2|Brianolsen2]] ([[User talk:Brianolsen2|talk]]) 21:22, 24 February 2023 (UTC)