Wow, what an amazing year 2024 was for Trino! Martin Traverso presented about the achievements and progress of the project at the recent Trino Summit 2024. Let me dive deeper into the content of his keynote and elaborate some more about our amazing plans for the future.
Statistics
In his first slide of the presentation Enduring with persistence to reach the summit Martin presented some of the amazing statistics of the year:
- Over 30 releases packed with features and improvements - Trino releases 436-467
- 5,000+ additional commits to the 40,000+ total commits since project start
- 225+ unique contributors in 2024, 925+ total
- 10.5k+ stars on GitHub
- 13,500+ Slack members
- Trino Community Broadcast episodes 54-67
Improvements
Some of the major improvements in Trino are:
- Access controls with Open Policy Agent and Apache Ranger
- Improved observability with OpenLineage, OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics, and Kafka
- Significant client protocol improvements
- Python user-defined functions
- New connectors such as Faker, Snowflake, or Vertica
- Numerous improvements on object storage connectors and integrations
Of course we also paid a lot of attention to bug fixes and shipped tremendous performance improvements.
Slides and video
If you want to find out all the details, have a look at the slides and the video recording:
Other projects
Martin also talked about the many improvements in other Trino projects such as Trino Gateway, trino-python-client, the new trino-js-client, and the new trino-csharp-client.
Plans for 2025
For 2025, we have some pretty big plans in addition to our continued software supply chain attention, performance improvemsnts and bug fixes.
- Secrets management and dynamic catalogs
- Client protocol improvements for all client drivers
- Packaging improvements
- More connectors such as DuckDB, LanceDB, HsqlDB, Loki, …
- Continued and even increased work on performance improvements
- Research and prototype towards a next generation optimizer
- SQL language improvements such as
PIVOT,ASOFjoins, …
Of course, what really happens in 2025 and Trino depends on you all. The project lives and breathes only thanks to the efforts of all our contributors and maintainers and we look forward to working with you all.
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