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    PrestoDB (or Presto)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APresto is an open source SQL query engine designed to run queries on data stored in Hadoop or in traditional databases. Teradata supported development of Presto followed the acquisition of Hadapt and Revelytix.N/A

    SAS Enterprise Guide

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASAS Enterprise Guide is a menu-driven, Windows GUI tool for SAS.N/A
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    PrestoDB (or Presto)SAS Enterprise Guide
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    PrestoDB (or Presto)SAS Enterprise Guide
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    PrestoDB (or Presto)SAS Enterprise Guide
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
    JMP Pro
    Score6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PrestoDB (or Presto)SAS Enterprise Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    5.3
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    PrestoDB (or Presto)SAS Enterprise Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    Presto is for interactive simple queries, where Hive is for reliable processing. If you have a fact-dim join, presto is great..however for fact-fact joins presto is not the solution.. Presto is a great replacement for proprietary technology like Vertica
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    SAS
    SAS Enterprise Guide is good at taking various datasets and giving analyst/user ability to do some transformations without substantial amounts of code. Once the data is inside SAS, the memory of it is very efficient. Using SAS for data analysis can be helpful. It will give good statistics for you, and it has a robust set of functions that aid analysis.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Linking, embedding links and adding images is easy enough.
    • Once you have become familiar with the interface, Presto becomes very quick & easy to use (but, you have to practice & repeat to know what you are doing - it is not as intuitive as one would hope).
    • Organizing & design is fairly simple with click & drag parameters.
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    SAS
    • Ability to load an AutoExec when opening a session ensuring everyone has the same global variables.
    • Formatting with Ctrl I. If you're reading someone else's code and it's not formatted correctly you can highlight the area and hit Ctrl I.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Presto was not designed for large fact fact joins. This is by design as presto does not leverage disk and used memory for processing which in turn makes it fast.. However, this is a tradeoff..in an ideal world, people would like to use one system for all their use cases, and presto should get exhaustive by solving this problem.
    • Resource allocation is not similar to YARN and presto has a priority queue based query resource allocation..so a query that takes long takes longer...this might be alleviated by giving some more control back to the user to define priority/override.
    • UDF Support is not available in presto. You will have to write your own functions..while this is good for performance, it comes at a huge overhead of building exclusively for presto and not being interoperable with other systems like Hive, SparkSQL etc.
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    SAS
    • Process time of data is a bit long. It depends on the size of your data and complexity of your project tree.
    • There is not enough online free training videos.
    • While working with the project tree sometimes the links between the modules are broken or the order for running the modules get mixed up. You should know your project tree by heart.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
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    SAS
    On account of current user experience and the organization-wide acceptance.
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    SAS
    It's not all bad, but I don't believe that an enterprise purchase of SAS is worth the expense considering the widely available set of tools in the data analytics space at the moment. In my company, it's a good tool because others use it. Otherwise, I wouldn't purchase a new set of it because it doesn't have some of the better analytical functions in it.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
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    SAS
    Although I use SAS support for information on functions, these are SAS related and haven't really come across anything that is specifically for SAS EG.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
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    SAS
    I've not worked hands-on with the implementation team, but there were no escalations barring a few hiccups in the deployment due to change in requirement & adoption to our company's remote servers.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Presto is good for a templated design appeal. You cannot be too creative via this interface - but, the layout and options make the finalized visual product appealing to customers. The other design products I use are for different purposes and not really comparable to Presto.
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    SAS
    Why I prefer SAS EG: Data processing speed is much faster than that R Studio. It can load any amount of data and any type of data like structured or unstructured or semi-structured. Its output delivery system by which we have the output in PDF file makes it very comfortable to use and share that file to clients very easily. Inbuilt functions are very powerful and plentiful. Facility of writing macros makes it far away from its competitors.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Presto has helped scale Uber's interactive data needs. We have migrated a lot out of proprietary tech like Vertica.
    • Presto has helped build data driven applications on its stack than maintain a separate online/offline stack.
    • Presto has helped us build data exploration tools by leveraging it's power of interactive and is immensely valuable for data scientists.
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    SAS
    • Positive (cost): SAS made a bundle that include unlimited usage of SAS/Enterprise Guide with a server solution. That by itself made the company save a lot of money by not having to pay individual licences anymore.
    • Positive (insight): Data analysts in business units often need to crunch data and they don't have access to ETL tools to do it. Having access to SAS/EG gives them that power.
    • Positive (time to market): Having the users develop components with SAS/EG allows for easier integration in a production environment (SAS batch job) as no code rework is required.
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