Starburst Newsletter – September 2021

Welcome to the 37th issue of the Starburst Newsletter.

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News and Knowledge

• Massive performance gains in 360-e
• The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition
• Data Mesh eBook from O’Reilly – Chapter 5
• New videos added to our video library

Releases and new features

In August, we released (Q3) of Starburst Enterprise (360-e LTS). Improvements in this release have brought up to 10X performance enhancements for some queries in the TPC Benchmark. In addition to delivering faster performance, this new release provides new capabilities such as Starburst Cached Views, Atlas integration, authentication pass-through, and connectivity for DynamoDB.

Here’s the press release, and our product release blog so you can learn more.

Some notable features for this release include:

• Starburst Cached Views expands with materialized views. Starburst Cached Views allows domain experts to easily enrich, transform, and move data according to their needs. 
• A new proprietary Parquet reader, improving read performance on Parquet files by an average of 20% over Trino.
• Starburst’s Atlas integration enables customers to push metadata on tables, views, and columns to Atlas along with data lineage between the assets. This integration allows sensitive data to be tracked as it is moved to ensure future access maintains the same security controls.
• Starburst can now authenticate with OIDC-compliant identity providers and pass-through identity to underlying data sources. This allows organizations to centralize authentication control for improved security and reduced operational overhead. 
• Starburst has added connectivity for DynamoDB. Previously, customers needed to extract data from DynamoDB and load into another database for SQL analytics.
• Enhanced support for the Delta Lake format. Starburst now has native statistics collection that is used by Starburst’s cost-based optimizer to improve query performance by a factor of 2x. Starburst also integrates with the Delta Lake OPTIMIZE command which allows for more efficient data organization, thus further increasing the performance of Delta Lake queries.

Events

• How DoorDash is Realizing a Unified Query Engine | September 14 
• Trino Summit 2021 | October 21

Other Events

• TechTalk LA | September 15
• RVATech Data Summit | September 16
• SIM Portland Golf Tournament | September 16
• TechTalk Boston | September 21
• CMS Data Summit | September 21-23
• TechTalk Scottsdale Topgolf | September 22
• Starburst 101 Workshop | September 22
• Boston Happy Hour | September 23
• CDAO Fall Virtual Event | October 12-14
• Google Cloud NEXT | October 12-14
• Nashville Analytics Summit | October 18
• TechTalk NYC  | October 19
• TechTalk DC | October 20

Trino Community Broadcasts

Catch up on the latest episode:

• Episode 23: Trino looking for patterns

See all the previous episodes of the Trino Community Broadcast

Trino Meetup Groups

We started three virtual groups: trino-americas, trino-emea, and trino-apac that will serve as a place for everyone to meet by timezone. Once we are able to do in person meet ups again, they will be a place to go if you don’t have a Trino meetup in your town or want to attend both physical and virtual meetups. The long term goal is to slowly expand to more local small meetups.

• Virtual
  • Virtual Trino Americas
  • Virtual Trino EMEA
  • Virtual Trino APAC
• East Coast (US)
  • Trino Boston
  • Trino NYC
• West Coast (US)
  • Trino San Fransisco
  • Trino Los Angeles
• Mid West (US)
  • Trino Chicago