Presto is a distributed SQL query engine optimized for interactive analysis of large datasets across multiple data sources. It aims to improve on Hadoop by allowing data scientists to run queries with low latency. Presto's architecture allows it to distribute queries across a cluster and retrieve data in memory for fast performance. It supports various connectors to data sources like HDFS, Cassandra and Hive. The document outlines Presto's features and performance advantages. It also discusses the open source project's future plans to add more SQL features, improve large joins and aggregations, develop an ODBC driver and potentially introduce a native storage format.