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#

Comparison of PrestoSQL and SEP support for cloud provider features#
Cloud provider feature	PrestoSQL	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, GCP GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, RedHat OpenShift		check_circle_outline

Management and administration#

Comparison of PrestoSQL and SEP support management features#
Feature	PrestoSQL	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 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.

Comparison of PrestoSQL and SEP clients#
Client	PrestoSQL	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 PrestoSQL and SEP security features#
Feature	PrestoSQL	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 PrestoSQL and SEP support availability#
Feature overview	PrestoSQL	Starburst Enterprise
Online community interaction	check_circle_outline	check_circle_outline
24x7 support, 365, under 30 minute SLA		check_circle_outline
Largest team of PrestoSQL experts in the world		check_circle_outline
Dedicated technical account manager		check_circle_outline
Fully tested, stable releases, curated by the PrestoSQL 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

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!