Performance, logging, and governance features

This documentation provides a comprehensive listing of features and configuration options for Dell Data Analytics Engine, powered by Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP). Our administration topics section covers common administrative tasks, which reference this documentation as needed.

Note

Our Kubernetes reference section contains further resources including specific Helm chart examples for configuring SEP.

Feature topic areas

Starburst Enterprise includes many general options for performance tuning, partitioning, and logging, along with other optimizations.

Properties reference

Find descriptions for most configuration properties in our properties reference:

• Properties reference

Performance-related properties and features

Learn about specific performance-related features, such as fault-tolerant execution:

• Tuning Starburst Enterprise
• Distributed sort
• Dynamic filtering
• Fault-tolerant execution
• Graceful shutdown
• Resource groups
• Session property managers
• Spill to disk

Starburst Cached Views

The SEP cache service enables Starburst Cached Views and materialized views with automatic refreshes.

• Starburst Cached Views
• Table scan redirection
• Cache service
• Cache service CLI

Automated refreshes for materialized views are currently supported in Hive. The Iceberg connector also supports materialized views; however, automatic refreshing is not supported.

Data governance

Starburst Enterprise allows you to integrate Apache Atlas to layer data governance with your data access controls .

• Atlas integration
• Starburst Atlas plugin
• Atlas CLI

Platform features

SEP includes a number of optional features to aid in its management:

• Monitoring with JMX
• Backend service
• Telemetry
• Observability with OpenTelemetry

Other resources

Looking for more information on SEP platform administration?

• View our SEP performance tuning video training.

• Read our security section to learn about securing cluster access, authentication types, auditing, and more.

• View our video training on securing SEP.