Starburst Portal#

Starburst Portal is an optional Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) deployment package containing:

  • Starburst Data Catalog

  • Query routing capabilities for multi-cluster configurations

Note

Query routing is a private preview feature. Contact Starburst Support with questions or feedback.

Use cases#

Use Starburst Portal’s query routing capabilities to orchestrate multiple SEP clusters for advanced enterprise use cases such as load balancing and workload isolation.

Load balancing#

Load balancing is a workload management strategy that lets you scale a workload beyond what a single SEP cluster can handle by spreading queries across multiple clusters. Use query routing to automatically distribute queries to clusters within a routing group based on the existing workload of each cluster. For more information, see Load balancing.

Workload isolation#

Workload isolation is a workload management strategy that prevents dissimilar workloads from interfering with each other by ensuring they run on separate SEP clusters. Use query routing to automatically route queries from different workloads to different routing groups based on criteria you specify. For more information, see Workload isolation.