Dell Data Analytics Engine 423-e.13 reference documentation

Dell Data Analytics Engine, powered by Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) documentation consists of version-specific reference documentation and user guides that are up-to-date with the latest release.

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Who do we write for?

We write for users, who fall into one or more of the following three personas:

• Data consumers query data through existing catalogs.

• Data engineers create catalogs that connect data sources to SEP.

• Platform administrators run and maintain the SEP cluster.

Reference documentation

Overview

• Features, use cases, and support
  • Use cases
  • Core concepts

The overview contains lists designed to help you understand the similarities and differences between open source Trino, and SEP across several categories, as well as presenting use cases and support availability.

For all users

• Starburst Enterprise web UI
• Clients
• Data products
• Insights

The topics above contain both version-specific descriptions of SEP end-user features and UI elements for all users, as well as relevant configuration properties for platform administrators.

For data engineers

• Query optimizer
• Developer guide

These topics assist data engineers in understanding query performance in SEP, and in creating tools for use with the platform.

For platform administrators

• Manual installation and license
• Deploying with Kubernetes
• Performance, logging, and governance features
• Security
• Starburst Enterprise REST API

Data sources

• Connector overview
• Object storage connectors
• Non-object storage connectors
• Utilities
• Starburst connectors feature matrix

The topics in this section contain information relevant to all three personas by connector. For all connectors, configuration properties must be implemented by a platform administrator or data engineer with similar access. If enabled, session properties apply to all users where available. Connector topics also include type mapping and performance information, such as pushdown and dynamic filtering, relevant to all users.

SQL reference

• SQL language
• SQL statement syntax
• Functions and operators

These topics in this section provide a full listing of all SQL-related functionality in SEP.

Version information

• 423-e.13 LTS and others
• Release notes

Appendix

• Version-specific notices and information