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Airbnb Engineering & Data Science Airbnb.ioUnshutSourceEventsBlogGithubCareersAirbnb.io AirpalWeb UI for PrestoDB2,345By James MayfieldAirbnb is pleased to signify the launch of Airpal, a web-based query execution tool that leverages Facebook’s PrestoDB to facilitate data analysis. People who spend time using SQL for exploration and investigation know that the workflow is not unchangingly smooth. Remembering how a query was written, copying and pasting from the writ line, and running multiple terminal windows can slow lanugo wringer and be frustrating. Additionally, when diverse teams are using SQL for analytics, the learning lines can be steep for beginners, so good UI tools can help momentum adoption and promote knowledge sharing. At Airbnb, we launched Airpal internally well-nigh a year ago and now increasingly than 1/3 of all employees have issued a query through the tool. This is an phenomenal statistic and it shows how integral Presto is to our company’s data infrastructure. We currently hold well-nigh one and a half petabytes of data as Hive managed tables in HDFS, and the relatively small data size of our important “core_data” tables allows us to use Presto as the default query engine for analysis. When running ad hoc queries and iterating on the steps of an analysis, Presto is much snappier and increasingly responsive than traditional map reduce jobs. The biggest goody to subtracting Presto to our infrastructure stack, though, is that we don’t have to add spare complexity to indulge “interactive” querying. Because we are querying versus our one, inside Hive warehouse, we can alimony a “single source of truth” with no large scale copies to a separate storage/query layer. Additionally, the fact that we don’t need transpiration data storage type from RC format to see the speed improvements, makes Presto a unconfined nomination for our infrastructure. We are excited to share this tool with the unshut source polity and we hope that it can provide similar utility for others. Key features of Airpal: optional wangle controls for users worthiness to search and find tables see metadata, partitions, schemas, and sample rows write queries in an easy-to-read editor submit queries through a web interface track query progress get the results when through the browser as a CSV create new Hive table based on the results of a query save queries once written searchable history of all queries run within the tool Keeping with the spirit of Presto, we have tried to make it simple to install Airpal by providing a local storage option for people who would like to test it out without any overhead or cost. For increasingly detailed information, visit the GitHub page here: https://github.com/airbnb/airpal A few of the notable technology features in Airpal are: uses Dropwizard as an easy way to provide a REST service in Java employs SSE (Server Sent Events) to push messages from the server to the vendee the front end JavaScript uses react.js Finally, we would be remiss if we did not mention the superstitious direction that Facebook provided as the original developers of Hive and the pioneers of towers UI tools to facilitate easy wangle to big data. We stood on the shoulders of giants to make this tool and we fathom the influence and input that the data infrastructure and data tools teams at Facebook were worldly-wise to provide. If you’re interested in helping build a world matriculation suite of data tools, trammels out this unshut job position: https://www.airbnb.com/jobs/departments/position/48112LinksGithubGetting StartedRead More© Airbnb, Inc.© Airbnb, Inc.CareersDesignCareersDesignCareersDesign