Today, the three founders of the well-known open source project Presto announced that they will change the name of the Prestosql project to Trino.

The project was originally run by Facebook, but in early 2019, the three founders of the Presto team left Facebook. Since then, the Presto project has been split in two, with Facebook maintaining Prestodb and Martin, Dain, and David, the original founders of the Presto project, maintaining Prestosql.

The name of the Prestosql project has been changed to Trino on GitHub, and the project’s new address has been provided in the announcement.

Negotiations with Facebook failed and Prestosql was forced to change its name

“Personally, as the founder who originally named the project Presto, this is an incredibly frustrating and disappointing event,” the three sponsors said.

In 2012, Martin, Dain, and David joined the Facebook Data Infrastructure team. To solve the problem of low-latency interactive analysis on Facebook’s massive Hadoop data warehouse, they created Presto.

But in 2018, Facebook executives said they wanted tighter control over the project and its future. Martin, Dain, and David left Facebook because of a clash of ideas.

In January 2019, they launched the Presto Software Foundation, an independent entity that oversees the development of the software and community, and continues the meritocracy built at Facebook over the past six years. In the 10 months since the foundation was founded, Prestosql has attracted a large number of new users and developers.

But in a surprise move, Facebook filed a trademark for Presto. In September 2019, Facebook established The Presto Foundation on The LinuxFoundation and immediately began applying for trademarks.

During this time, Martin, Dain, and David tried and failed to reach a deal with the Linux Foundation. As a result, Prestosql had to change its name.

In their announcement announcing the Prestosql project’s renaming as Trino, Martin, Dain, and David noted that during their six years at Facebook, they have worked hard to build a healthy open source community and ecosystem around the project, working with developers and users around the world. Much of Presto’s growth is due to the contributions of developers from many fields and around the world.

Although the name Presto, they say, feel, “but frankly, we are tired of the endless distractions, we intend to focus on the most important thing and we work best, build everyone can rely on high quality software, and establish a healthy user and developer community and support it.”

Making address: https://github.com/trinodb/trino

We’re rebranding Prestosql as Trino