Editorial take
Why it stands out
Trino should be framed as a strategic query layer, not as just another database entry.
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Open-source distributed SQL query engine for running fast interactive analytics across data lakes, warehouses, and federated data sources.
Distributed SQL analytics
Trino is worth adding because it is one of the most important open-source query layers in modern data stacks. It is not a warehouse by itself and not only a connector catalog. Its value is that it lets teams run distributed SQL across many systems while keeping the query layer flexible, which is exactly why it shows up in real lakehouse, platform, and federated analytics architectures.
Its pricing posture is clean and OSS-first. The official site presents Trino as a distributed SQL query engine for big data, and the GitHub repository is Apache 2.0 licensed. There is no first-party pricing page on the official project site, so the real cost is infrastructure, operations, and any commercial distribution or support a team chooses around the project.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Trino should be framed as a strategic query layer, not as just another database entry.
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Trino is an Apache 2.0 licensed open-source project with no official public pricing page. The software itself is free, and cost comes from infrastructure, operations, and any commercial support or hosted distribution chosen around it.
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