Starburst Galaxy release notes #

Starburst Galaxy is updated regularly. The following release notes provide highlights of user-facing changes available with specific new deployments.

4 May 2022 #

• Add Great Lakes connectivity to the Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage and Google Cloud Storage object storage catalogs, and therefore add support for Iceberg and Delta Lake table formats.
• Add support for batch mode clusters.

29 Apr 2022 #

• Autocomplete for SQL functions and inline documentation in query editor.
• Dedicated cloud settings section for AWS to manage IAM roles.

15 Apr 2022 #

• Download query result set directly from the query editor. Allows result sets with more than 1000 rows.

22 Mar 2022 #

• Add support for connecting to SQL Server data sources.

8 Mar 2022 #

• Add support for personal query history. See your role’s query history if you do not have permissions to view all queries.
• Autocomplete SQL grammar in the query editor. Valid keyword such as SELECT, FROM, WHERE, LIKE, and others are suggested when appropriate to speed up your query writing.

3 Mar 2022 #

• Add support for connecting to Redshift and the Hive Metastore Service in Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Google Cloud Storage catalogs via SSH tunnels.
• Combine tables and views in one node in the explorer view of the query editor.

18 Feb 2022 #

• Add Redshift catalog.
• Add support for connecting to MySQL and PostgreSQL catalogs via SSH tunnels.
• Connect catalogs to clusters in a new step in the catalog setup.

Jan 2022 #

• Authentication with a cross account IAM role in S3 catalogs.

2021 #

Initial deployments to first public launch with cluster management, a set of supported catalogs, query editor,authentication and access control, and more.