This is a presentation given at a Big Data Boulder / Denver Meetup event by Ashish Dubey, a Senior Solutions Architect at Qubole. The following slides cover a background of Presto and its architecture, and how it differs in both performance and cost from traditional Hadoop / Hive for Adhoc queries as well as SparkSQL, Impala, Tez, and Redshift. There are also several slides about how Qubole has been involved with the open-source Apache Presto project, along with performance optimizing contributions. Qubole is a big data analytics software that has solved many headaches around the traditional model of big data (Hadoop, Spark, Presto) and cloud computing in popular IaaS providers: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle BMC.