Overview

Starburst Enterprise

Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) is the commercial distribution of Trino. 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 Trino, and SEP across several categories: platform, deployment scenarios, management, clients, security, support, and connectors.

Cloud providers

Comparison of Trino and SEP support for cloud provider features

Cloud provider feature	Trino	Starburst Enterprise
Amazon Web Services
S3 Support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
AWS Glue catalog support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service availability		check_circle_outline
CloudWatch SEP logs integration		check_circle_outline
CloudWatch dashboard integration		check_circle_outline
AWS Marketplace availability		check_circle_outline
Microsoft Azure
Azure data lake storage support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Azure Blob storage support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Azure Kubernetes service support		check_circle_outline
Azure Marketplace availability		check_circle_outline
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud storage support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Google Stackdriver integration		check_circle_outline
Google Kubernetes Engine availability		check_circle_outline
Google Cloud Marketplace availability		check_circle_outline
Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift Availability		check_circle_outline
Red Hat Marketplace Availability		check_circle_outline
Kubernetes support
Docker containers	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Support and resources for Kubernetes		check_circle_outline
Out-of-box Kubernetes configuration		check_circle_outline
Apache Ranger integration		check_circle_outline
Hive Metastore Service container		check_circle_outline
Certified for AWS EKS, Google Cloud GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, Red Hat OpenShift		check_circle_outline

Management and administration

Comparison of Trino and SEP support management features

Feature	Trino	Starburst Enterprise
Web UI	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Monitoring with JMX	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
High availability		check_circle_outline
Autoscaling with graceful scaledown		check_circle_outline
Usage metrics		check_circle_outline

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 overview.

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 overview.

Comparison of Trino and SEP clients

Client	Trino	Starburst Enterprise
Command line interface	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
JDBC driver	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
ODBC driver		check_circle_outline
Starburst Power BI DirectQuery driver		check_circle_outline
Additional community clients	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline

Security

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

Comparison of Trino and SEP security features

Feature	Trino	Starburst Enterprise
Kerberos support	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Kerberos credential passthrough		check_circle_outline
Kerberos support with caching		check_circle_outline
LDAP authentication	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Secrets	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
Encryption - secure internal communication	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
User impersonation	Hive only	check_circle_outline
Password credential passthrough		check_circle_outline
Event logger		check_circle_outline
Query audit		check_circle_outline
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		check_circle_outline
Hive access control with Apache Sentry		check_circle_outline
Okta authentication		check_circle_outline

Support

Comparison of Trino and SEP support availability

Feature overview	Trino	Starburst Enterprise
Online community interaction	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
24x7 support, 365, under 30 minute SLA		check_circle_outline
Largest team of Trino experts in the world		check_circle_outline
Dedicated technical account manager		check_circle_outline
Fully tested, stable releases, curated by the Trino creators		check_circle_outline
Hot fixes and security patches		check_circle_outline
Long Term Support (LTS) releases		check_circle_outline
Short Term Support (STS) releases with newest features		check_circle_outline

Trino

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

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

• Use cases
• Core concepts

Trino: The Definitive Guide

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