Features, use cases, and support#

Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) is the commercial distribution of Trino. It is maintained by Starburst and free to download and use.

Starburst Enterprise includes the Trino cost-based optimizer as well as additional security features, more connectors, support for using additional deployment platforms, and much more.

Starburst Enterprise#

A number of enterprise features require a license key to be enabled. For more information about obtaining and installing a license, see Starburst Enterprise license.

The feature lists in this topic are designed to help you understand the similarities and differences between open source Trino, and SEP across several categories: platform, deployment scenarios, management, clients, security, support, and connectors.

Cloud providers#

SEP is available on all major cloud platforms through marketplace offerings as well as our Kubernetes offering.

Comparison of Trino and SEP support for cloud provider features#

Cloud provider feature

Trino

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Amazon Web Services

S3 Support

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AWS Glue catalog support

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service availability

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CloudWatch SEP logs integration

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CloudWatch dashboard integration

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AWS Marketplace availability

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Microsoft Azure

Azure data lake storage support

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Azure Blob storage support

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Azure Kubernetes service support

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Azure Marketplace availability

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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud storage support

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Google Stackdriver integration

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Google Kubernetes Engine availability

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Google Cloud Marketplace availability

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Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift Availability

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Red Hat Marketplace Availability

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Kubernetes support

Docker containers

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Support and resources for Kubernetes

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Out-of-box Kubernetes configuration

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Apache Ranger integration

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Hive Metastore Service container

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MinIO storage support

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Certified for AWS EKS, Google Cloud GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, Red Hat OpenShift

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SEP and Trino feature comparisons#

SEP adds many exclusive features to the already-powerful Trino distributed query engine.

Management and administration#

Comparison of Trino and SEP support management features#

Feature

Trino

Starburst Enterprise

Trino web UI

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Monitoring with JMX

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High availability

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Autoscaling with graceful scaledown

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Backend service (Required)

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Telemetry

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Cluster metrics dashboard (Starburst Insights)

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Data products

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Apache Atlas integration

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Starburst Warp Speed

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Note

SEP includes Starburst Admin for customers deploying to on-prem or virtual infrastructure. Starburst Admin is a collection of Ansible playbooks for installing and managing Starburst Enterprise or Trino clusters.

Connectors#

SEP contains many additional connectors, as well as improvements of Trino connectors to increase performance, add security features and others. A detailed feature comparison is available in the Starburst connectors feature matrix.

Clients#

Clients are anything that connects to Trino or SEP to enable users of that tool to run SQL queries.

For more information about connectors and related extensions, see Starburst connectors feature matrix.

Comparison of Trino and SEP clients#

Client

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Starburst Enterprise

Command line interface

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JDBC driver

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ODBC driver

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Query editor

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Starburst also supports tools such as PowerBi, Tableau and others. More information is available in our clients documentation.

Security#

All security features require a license. For a full list of security documentation, see Security.

Comparison of Trino and SEP security features#

Feature

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Kerberos support

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Kerberos credential passthrough

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Kerberos support with caching

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LDAP authentication

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Secrets

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Encryption - secure internal communication

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User impersonation

Hive only

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Password credential passthrough

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Backend service

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Query audit

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Built-in access control

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Apache Ranger and Privacera Platform support

  • global access control, or Hive and Delta Lake access control

  • access control for all catalogs, schemas, and tables

  • column level access control and data masking

  • row level filters

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Okta authentication

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Support#

Trino is supported by an active community. Starburst Enterprise adds extensive professional support.

Comparison of Trino and SEP support availability#

Feature overview

Trino

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Online community interaction

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24x7 support, 365, under 30 minute SLA

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Largest team of Trino experts in the world

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Dedicated technical account manager

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Fully tested, stable releases, curated by the Trino creators

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Hot fixes and security patches

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Long Term Support (LTS) releases

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Short Term Support (STS) releases with newest features

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Trino#

Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) is a distributed SQL query engine designed to query large datasets distributed over one or more heterogeneous data sources.

Trino is maintained by the large community of contributors and users of the Trino Software Foundation.

Trino: The Definitive Guide#

Trino: The Definitive Guide

Enjoy a free copy of Trino: The Definitive Guide from Starburst to learn much more about Trino!