Overview#
Starburst Enterprise#
Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) is the commercial distribution of PrestoSQL. It is is maintained by Starburst and free to download and use. It includes additional security features, more connectors, a cost-based query optimizer, support for running additional deployment platforms and much more.
You can download SEP from our installation documentation.
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.
This following feature lists are designed to help you understand the similarities and differences between open source PrestoSQL, and SEP across several categories: platform, deployment scenarios, management, clients, security, support, and connectors.
Cloud providers#
Cloud provider feature |
PrestoSQL |
Starburst Enterprise |
---|---|---|
Amazon Web Services |
||
S3 Support |
||
AWS Glue catalog support |
||
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service availability |
||
CloudWatch SEP logs integration |
||
CloudWatch dashboard integration |
||
AWS Marketplace availability |
||
Microsoft Azure |
||
Azure data lake storage support |
||
Azure Blob storage support |
||
Azure Kubernetes service support |
||
Azure Marketplace availability |
||
Google Cloud Platform |
||
Google Cloud storage support |
||
Google Stackdriver integration |
||
Google Kubernetes Engine availability |
||
Google Cloud Marketplace availability |
||
Red Hat Openshift |
||
OpenShift Availability |
||
Red Hat Marketplace Availability |
||
Kubernetes support |
||
Docker containers |
||
Support and resources for Kubernetes |
||
Out-of-box Kubernetes configuration |
||
Apache Ranger integration |
||
Hive Metastore Service container |
||
Certified for AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, RedHat OpenShift |
Management and administration#
Feature |
PrestoSQL |
Starburst Enterprise |
---|---|---|
Web UI |
||
Monitoring with JMX |
||
High availability |
||
Autoscaling with graceful scaledown |
||
Connectors#
SEP contains many additional connectors, as well as improvements of PrestoSQL connectors to increase performance, add security features and others. A detailed feature comparison is available in the Starburst connectors overview.
Clients#
Clients are anything that connects to PrestoSQL or SEP to enable users of that tool to run SQL queries.
For more information about connectors and related extensions, see Starburst connectors overview.
Client |
PrestoSQL |
Starburst Enterprise |
---|---|---|
JDBC driver |
||
ODBC driver |
||
Additional community clients |
Security#
All security features require a license. For a full list of security documentation, see Security.
Feature |
PrestoSQL |
Starburst Enterprise |
---|---|---|
Kerberos support with caching |
||
Hive only |
||
Apache Ranger and Privacera Platform support
|
||
Support#
Feature overview |
PrestoSQL |
Starburst Enterprise |
---|---|---|
Online community interaction |
||
24x7 support, 365, under 30 minute SLA |
||
Largest team of PrestoSQL experts in the world |
||
Dedicated technical account manager |
||
Fully tested, stable releases, curated by the PrestoSQL creators |
||
Hot fixes and security patches |
||
Long Term Support (LTS) releases |
||
Short Term Support (STS) releases with newest features |
PrestoSQL#
PrestoSQL is a distributed SQL query engine designed to query large data sets distributed over one or more heterogeneous data sources.
PrestoSQL is maintained by the large community of contributors and users of the Trino Software Foundation.
Presto: The Definitive Guide#
![]() |
Enjoy a free copy of Presto: The Definitive Guide from Starburst to learn much more about PrestoSQL! |