Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Airbnb Airpal


We know that Airbnb is a popular website for people to list, find, and rent lodging. It has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries.

Recently, Airbnb  launched Big Data tool Airpal, a web-based query execution tool that leverages Facebook’s PrestoDB to facilitate data analysis by authoring queries and retrieving results simple for users.

Key features of Airpal:

  • optional access controls for users
  • ability to search and find tables
  • see metadata, partitions, schemas, and sample rows
  • write queries in an easy-to-read editor
  • submit queries through a web interface
  • track query progress
  • get the results back through the browser as a CSV
  • create new Hive table based on the results of a query
  • save queries once written
  • searchable history of all queries run within the tool

Requirements are:

  • Java 7 or higher
  • MySQL database
  • Presto 0.77 or higher
  • S3 bucket (to store CSVs)
  • Gradle 2.2 or higher


On keeping with the spirit of Presto, they have tried to make it simple to install Airpal by providing a local storage option for people who would like to test it out without any overhead or cost.

For more detailed information, visit the GitHub page here: https://github.com/airbnb/airpal

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