Ahana, a newly found big data company has emerged from its stealth mode on June 2nd after declaring it had raised $2.25 million from a seed funding round led by GV, Google’s investment arm. Less than a month after exiting stealth mode, big data start-up Ahana said it is making the Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB SQL query engine software available through the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and is providing a PrestoDB container through DockerHub. The company is developing a business providing commercial, technical, and use-case support services for PrestoDB software. Ahana is making available PrestoDB software on AWS marketplace and Presto Sandbox container on DockerHub.
Presto, a high-performance SQL software designed by Facebook for collecting data lingering on its social media that is a multi-petabyte data warehouse. PrestoDB Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is the first and only completely open-source and completely free Presto available on AWS marketplace. Also, Ahana provides commercial support to technical users and the management of their web-base.
However, there is a rivalry between Ahana and Starbust-Data, a Boston start-up, both offering free distribution and commercial edition with added management. Starbust-Data claimed to raise $42 million in series B financing.
There is a wave in the surge of innovation and technology. Collection of growing data is scattered all over the internet which will require acquiring, organizing, disseminating for business decisions. And this is where Presto will come to play. The software provides better access to data that the user might find it useful to derive conclusions. The digital transformation of making organizational decisions efficient through data-driven system is crucial. Organizations can make sure of a constant increase in their business workings through better utilization of databases and data warehouses available to them.
Data can be used effectively when the data is understood in its raw form and processed into the information we need.
