13.10. Memory Connector

The Memory connector stores all data and metadata in RAM on workers and both are discarded when Presto restarts.

Warning

This connector is in early experimental stage it is not recommended to use it in a production environment. The intended use of this connector at this point is purely for testing.

Warning

After DROP TABLE memory is not released immediately. It is released after next write access to memory connector.

Warning

When one worker fails/restarts all data that were stored in it’s memory will be lost forever. In other words in case of worker crash/stop/restart there will be partial and silent data loss. If all worker nodes fail/restart when coordinator is keep running tables will end up empty.

Warning

When coordinator fails/restarts all metadata about tables will be lost, but tables’ data will be still present on the workers however they will be inaccessible.

Warning

This connector will not work properly with multiple coordinators, since each coordinator will have a different metadata.

Configuration

To configure the Memory connector, create a catalog properties file etc/catalog/memory.properties with the following contents:

connector.name=memory

Examples

Create a table using the Memory connector:

CREATE TABLE memory.default.nation AS
SELECT * from tpch.tiny.nation;

Insert data into a table in the Memory connector:

INSERT INTO memory.default.nation
SELECT * FROM tpch.tiny.nation;

Select from the Memory connector:

SELECT * FROM memory.default.nation;

Drop table:

DROP TABLE memory.default.nation;