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Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Viktor Kessler and Christian Thiel from Vakamo who introduce us to their new metastore solution Lakekeeper. It is an Iceberg REST catalog-compatible lakehouse metastore with big plans for additional features and support for Trino. We dive into the details and have a look at a demo.

Time to start the week with a Trino Community Broadcast. In today's episode 72?Manfred Moser?and Cole Bowden are joined by?Christian Thiel ?and?Viktor Kessler?from Vakamo to talk about metastores aka catalogs, the Iceberg REST catalog and their very own Lakekeeper. Join us live at 9am PDT?https://lnkd.in/gQz-U_PG

After the smallish Trino 472 release last week, we are building up to a bigger Trino 473 release - hopefully next week. In the mean time we released Trino Gateway 15 today and Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are hosting Trino Community Broadcast 72 with?Christian Thiel and Viktor Kessler ?about Lakekeeper next Monday. Commander Bun Bun is excited - are you? - https://lnkd.in/gE9agqU5 - https://lnkd.in/guAZD_gq - https://lnkd.in/gQz-U_PG

XXiV - Twenty Four .. are you ready for a hot coffee in March 2025 - Java 24 is shipping and as usual Trino will upgrade. The great benefits however come with some collateral damage this time. We wish other projects would also get on the train and use modern Java! https://lnkd.in/gPhrdn-4

The Trino website ecosystem section now has dedicated content for all the different data lake components you can use with Trino. Check it out and let us know if we missed anything - https://lnkd.in/gBR4x2CP?and?https://lnkd.in/gx6r5kHs

Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Jan Wa? to learn about the new Faker connector and the Datafaker library. You can use it to emulate data that does not exist onany storage, how you can shape it as you need, and how you can then learn real SQL, build real reports, and make some real charts - all with fake data.

Its another big week for Trino! This Thursday we are running Trino maintainer call as sync for maintainers and subproject maintainers, and Trino contributor call for all of you assisting us with contributions to keep you updated on current projects and help with your PRs as needed. And lastly?Jan Wa? joins?Cole Bowden and?Manfred Moser for Trino Community Broadcast 71 about the Faker connector and the Datafaker library. You can use it to emulate data that does not exist on any storage, you can shape it as you need, and?you can then learn real SQL, build real reports, and make some real charts -?all with fake data. Join us live for with details on the?events calendar?and the?TCB page - https://lnkd.in/gBna_FwE - https://lnkd.in/gQz-U_PG

Did you say #AI or #LLM? Commander Bun Bun got you covered with the new Trino 471 release. Here are some of our new features: - Add?AI functions?for textual tasks on data using OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLMs using Ollama as backend - Add support for JSON logging format to console (useful in containers..) - Support additional Python libraries for use with Python user-defined functions - Remove RPM package - Add?local file system support - Add support for?S3 Tables?in Iceberg connector More information in the release notes?https://lnkd.in/gjtCtUeY

Our first Trino Gateway release of 2025 shipped, and it is packed of great new features and fixes. Some examples are the following: - Rules editor in the web interface - Automatic db schema update and support for Oracle - Trino cluster monitoring with JMX and OpenMetrics Read about all the details in the release notes https://lnkd.in/dRg_eXDB

Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Peter Kosztolanyi to talk about the origins, current status, and future of the new Preview Web UI for Trino, before we play around with it in a demo.