The most honest progress bar is your actual data arriving. The SQL editor's new streaming execution path delivers exactly that.
What changed
- The old submit-and-poll pattern is gone for Trino. The connection stays open end to end, and Databasin follows the query plan server-side.
- Results render progressively as pages arrive — you're reading row one while row ten thousand is still computing
- Live progress and query stats stream alongside the data
- Incremental fetch for large result sets landed the same week, so massive outputs don't blow up the browser
The practical effect: exploratory SQL feels conversational again. Fire a query, see the shape of the answer immediately, refine, repeat. No more staring at a spinner wondering if you should cancel.
And this wasn't a one-engine trick — the same streaming editor experience extended to each new engine as it joined the lakehouse afterward.