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Dell Data Analytics Engine, powered by Starburst, is a fully supported and enterprise-grade distributed SQL query engine designed for high-performance analytics. It allows users to query large amounts of data stored in various data sources throughout an organization using standard SQL syntax. It delivers on two key benefits for data and IT teams. Firstly, it provides users an ability to run queries across different data sources simultaneously, in the same query. These sources include relational databases, NoSQL databases, object storage systems, and more. Secondly, it can query data directly off a data lake storage system like Dell ECS, ObjectScale, and PowerScale. Such data may be stored in a variety of formats including open formats like Parquet, AVRO and ORC with metadata in open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake.
Data users can use this query engine to process data across multiple data systems and data sources.
With the integrated query engine, administrators can implement a layer on top of data that abstracts away details on location, connectivity, language variations, and API. This layer of abstraction is critical to simplify data analytics over a diverse set of data sources.