A Starburst Galaxy cluster can include very different data sources in the same cluster. This allows you to write queries that join data from data sources of different types in different locations. For example, you can write a single query that joins data from an AWS S3 bucket, an Amazon Redshift database, and a traditional MySQL database.
This is the detailed version of Query federation in brief.
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