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Learn about our <a href="./introduction/architecture.html">architecture</a>, <a href="./introduction/security.html">security</a>, <a href="./introduction/querying-data.html">SQL</a>, <a href="./introduction/performance-features.html">performance features</a>, and other topics in our <a href="./introduction/index.html">Introduction section</a>. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- row closing div --> <div class="row spacer-30 center"> <!-- Single item row --> <div class="col-md-12"> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="tile-title"><a href="./clients/index.html">Connect your favorite clients</a></div> <p>Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise connect to all your favorite data tools. Learn how to connect <a href="./clients/tableau/index.html">Tableau</a>, <a href="./clients/powerbi.html">Power BI</a>, <a href="./clients/looker.html">Looker</a>, as well as <a href="./clients/index.html">other BI tools</a>, data tools such as <a href="./clients/dbt.html">dbt</a> and <a href="./clients/airbyte.html">Airbyte</a>, and of course <a href="./clients/python/index.html">Python clients</a>. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- row closing div --> <div class="row spacer-30 center"> <!-- Two item row (SG/SEP) --> <div class="col-md-6"> <!-- Galaxy item --> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="tile-title"><a href="./starburst-galaxy/index.html">Starburst Galaxy</a></div> <p style="margin-top: 1em">Starburst Galaxy is a fully-managed data lake analytics platform built on top of <a href="./get-started/concepts.html#trino\">Trino</a>. It takes care of the heavy lifting of designing, provisioning, maintaining, and securing your data infrastructure while making it easy to discover, govern, and consume your data. <br /><br /> Keep up with Starburst's <a href="./starburst-galaxy/release-notes.html">rapid-fire Starburst Galaxy releases</a>, or dive into these popular documentation topics: <br /> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Finding and querying data</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/query-data/query-editor-basics.html">Query editor</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/global/global-search.html">Universal search</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/data-products/index.html">Data products</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Creating catalogs</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li>Object storage catalogs using <a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/object-storage/s3.html">S3</a>, <a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/object-storage/adls.html">ADLS</a>, or <a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/object-storage//gcs.html">Google Cloud Storage</a> data in your <a href="./starburst-galaxy/data-engineering/working-with-data-lakes/table-formats/index.html">preferred table format</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/non-object-storage/snowflake.html">Snowflake</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/non-object-storage/oracle.html">Oracle</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/non-object-storage/postgresql.html">PostgreSQL</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/non-object-storage/mysql.html">MySQL</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/working-with-data/create-catalogs/non-object-storage/index.html">Many others</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Boosting performance</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/data-engineering/optimization-performance-and-quality/workload-optimization/warp-speed-enabled.html">Starburst Warp speed</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/data-engineering/optimization-performance-and-quality/workload-optimization/clusters-with-fte.html">Fault tolerant execution</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/cluster-administration/monitor-and-manage-cost-and-performance/configure-autoscaling.html#configure-autoscaling">Autoscaling</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Starburst Galaxy reference material</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/reference/sql/index.html">SQL language</a></li> <li><a href="./starburst-galaxy/developer-tools/api/index.html">REST API</a></li> </ul> </p> <p>Don't see what you are looking for? View the <a href="./starburst-galaxy/index.html">Starburst Galaxy documentation</a>. </p> </div> </div> </div> <!-- Close Galaxy item --> <div class="col-md-6"> <!-- SEP item --> <div class="card"> <div class="card-body"> <a name="sep"></a> <div class="tile-title"><a href="./latest/index.html">Starburst Enterprise</a></div> <p style="margin-top: 1em">Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) is a fully-supported, self-hosted distribution of <a href="./get-started/concepts.html#trino\">Trino</a>. It adds integrations and more supported data sources, improves performance, provides additional security, and works in most cloud platforms. <br /><br /> Read the latest Starburst Enterprise <a href="./latest/release.html">release notes</a>, or dive into these popular documentation topics: <br /> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Finding and querying data</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./latest/client/query-editor.html">Query editor</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/data-products/index.html">Data products</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Creating catalogs</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li>Data lake catalogs using <a href="./latest/connector/starburst-iceberg.html">Iceberg</a>, <a href="./latest/connector/starburst-delta-lake.html">Delta lake</a>, or <a href="./latest/connector/starburst-hive.html">Hive</a> data in your favorite object storage</li> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-snowflake.html">Snowflake</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-oracle.html">Oracle</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-postgresql.html">PostgreSQL</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-teradata.html">Teradata</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-kafka.html">Kafka</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/connector.html">Many others</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Boosting performance</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./latest/connector/starburst-warp-speed.html">Warp speed</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/admin/fault-tolerant-execution.html">Fault tolerant execution</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/admin/starburst-cached-views.html">Cache service</a></li> </ul> <h6 style="text-align:left;">Starburst Enterprise reference material</h6> <ul style="text-align:left;"> <li><a href="./latest/language.html">SQL language</a></li> <li><a href="./latest/starburst-rest-api.html">REST API</a></li> </ul> </p> <p>Looking for other information? 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