--- title: PrestoDB Reviews meta\_title: 'PrestoDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how PrestoDB works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 14 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # PrestoDB Reviews & Product Details Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data * * * Seller [PrestoDB](https://www.g2.com/sellers/prestodb) Discussions [PrestoDB Community](https://www.g2.com/products/prestodb/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Microsoft SQL Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft SQL Server") Microsoft SQL Server 4.4/5(2,287) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ ![IBM Db2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Db2") IBM Db2 4.1/5(683) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) [ ![Oracle Database](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Oracle Database") Oracle Database 4.3/5(1,020) ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/prestodb/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 14 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sayan P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sayan P.") SP Sayan P. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Go to DB and query engine for Data Warehousing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? It is open source and not very hard to maintain. On top of that it is relatively easy to tweak parameters and features for custom needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? We use Hive and Presto in parallel but I keep going back to Presto everytime and I don't have anything to dislike actually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? As I mentioned earlier, we use presto on top of Hive tables, MySQL tables. It provides us a unified place to query and get insights quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anshul G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anshul G.") AG Anshul G. Decision Scientist II Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/1/2023 "PrestoDB for organization" 4.5/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? It's compatibility with other API's and services help us to explore more options in terms of scaling our product to its highest potential and will be able to serve to the competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? The SLA for PrestoDB can be improved and also more cloud services connectivity will help the product to make a difference and becomes the ideal choice of the organization to go for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? The schema changes everytime if an updates happen and with the help of PrestoDB we were dynamically identify and update the table so that it will be very helpful to cater our clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/21/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/31/2023 "Powerful and Versatile Distributed SQL Query Engine for Efficient Data Analysis" 4/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? I have been using PrestoDB for my data analysis needs for almost a year, and I am thoroughly impressed with its performance and versatility. The ability to query data from multiple sources in a single query has been a game-changer, allowing me to analyze data across various systems without moving it to a central location. The scalability of PrestoDB is also commendable, and I have been able to handle large volumes of data and high query loads without any issues. The support for a wide range of data formats and data sources has made it easy for me to integrate PrestoDB into my existing data ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? The only downside I have experienced is that the learning curve can be steep, especially if you are unfamiliar with distributed systems. PrestoDB is designed for analytical queries, and therefore, it has limited support for transactions. If we require transaction support, we may use another tool alongside PrestoDB. PrestoDB does not have native security features, such as encryption, authentication, and authorization. We have to implement these features separately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? PrestoDB enables users to query data across multiple data sources with a single query. This eliminates the need to move or copy data into a centralized data warehouse, which can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. PrestoDB supports a wide range of data formats and sources, making it a versatile tool for data analysis. It can work with structured and unstructured data and supports various storage systems such as Hadoop, MySQL, Cassandra, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/6/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") AT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/4/2023 "Not a big fan as I find it somewhat irrelevant in today's world for majority of my use cases" 2/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? It is open source and flexibly runs on HDFS or FS. The distributed nature of it allows to run queries faster and utilize the resource at their max if designed properly. Community is great as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? It is harder for Presto to stay relevant as many analytical DB solutions of today are much more price efficient. The learning curve and design considerations are far steeper in Presto, making it unnecessarily complex. It also requires a lot of other tools to fill the gaps as it is not a complete solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Our motivation was price back then, and it served its purpose until it started to become a liability. Being open-source with huge community support helped us built it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Pranay Raj N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pranay Raj N.") PN Pranay Raj N. Sr Professional Application Delivery Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2023 "Highly interactive DB" 4/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? Highly performance, flexibility, supportive pluggable architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? Learning curve,security controls, complexiety Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Performance, Flexible plugins to cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Partha Sarathi M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Partha Sarathi M.") PM Partha Sarathi M. Sr. Digital engineer(L1) Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/19/2022 "NexGen query engine" 4.5/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? It allows to query data from multiple data sources within a single query. It is very fast due to highly optimised query engine and is well suited for analysis. It is also highly flexible and as it acts like plug and play for data models from sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? It does not leverage disk and used memory for processing which in turn makes it fast. So it was designed for large scale fact joins and in real world, people like to use one system for all their use cases. So this problem should be solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? It is used as adhoc querying on datasets and also for a fee data driven applications. It can be used to make data driven decissions, reporting, experimenting analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Akshay P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akshay P.") AP Akshay P. Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "Faster query results" 4.5/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? Presto is a very fast an agile database in market. It delivers fast and accurate data within short time and the DDL and DML query execution is very easy and simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? The syntax is different from conventional sql language. Presto integration with other databases is also tidious job and sometimes take too long to establish the connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering PrestoDB: The cross platform connection needs to be enhanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Data extraction from different databases at a very fast and convenient way. Presto helps in faster data processing and also executes Windows function on data at a very high rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Devinder Singh G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Devinder Singh G.") DG Devinder Singh G. Group Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/24/2022 "Fast Sql engine for big data with great UI" 4/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? Most liked part on this is easy to understand with simple but attactive UI.with share link function you can share your result with the other mates and they have ability to check the query and result too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? Cost is on little bit expensive so i can say i dislike the costing of this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering PrestoDB: Easy to use db with link function to share tour result Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Many this is fast sql engine with compare to the other database that are available in the market, easy to use with great UI ,one thing that i liked most on this the way this handle the ladt data and provide the result withinno time make me fan pf this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lingjing S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lingjing S.") LS Lingjing S. Data Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/25/2021 "Very straight forward to use, very fast but a little bit expensive product" 4/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? The UI is very simple to navigate, and everything is very straightforward to understand. I like the share link function where you can easily share a link with query results to your colleagues. And the colleagues can see both the query and the result from the query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? You have to integrate it with your data system, and presto sometimes can cause data blip or intermittent errors when hitting a table if this table is refreshing. Plus the cost to use presto is also a little bit high compared to GCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem we are trying to solve is to efficiently query the data and make it scalable. The benefit of this product is that it is super fast compared to some other solutions, and it is easy to share the result with coworkers. Plus querying presto is super fast, and you can query very large data sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Punit R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Punit R.") PR Punit R. Senior Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "Very Large Scale distributed query engine" 3.5/5 What do you like best about PrestoDB? It provides an additional compute layer for faster analytics. It doesn't store the data as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about PrestoDB? Presto was not designed for large fact joins. Resource allocation is not similar to YARN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering PrestoDB: must try for once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is PrestoDB solving and how is that benefiting you? PrestoDB is been used for pulling out data from the warehouse in automated pipelines. Presto, is incredibly fast due to its optimized query engine. Presto is highly flexible as it operates with a plug and plays model for data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about PrestoDB? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about PrestoDB ](https://www.g2.com/products/prestodb/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is PrestoDB used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-prestodb-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/prestodb/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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