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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, certified on hundreds of clouds and with thousands of hardware and software vendors. For more information, refer to the OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 Documentation.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform that automates the provisioning, management, and scaling of applications to any cloud platform or on-prem.
In this solution we deploy Red Hat OpenShift on OS-ready PowerEdge servers. Starburst is then deployed on top of OpenShift. For more information, see the OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 Documentation.
Starburst provides a single point of access to query data that lives in most of the data systems. Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) is a fully supported, enterprise-grade distribution of Trino. For more information, refer to the Starburst Enterprise Platform documentation.
A Metastore maps files in distributed objects stores such as S3 and HDFS into tables and provides metadata such as columns names and type mapping. It also provides metadata to the cost-based optimizer. A metastore service is required for SEP and Starburst Stargate for numerous use cases, including the following:
For more information, refer to the Hive Metastore Configuration documentation.
PostgreSQL is a popular, open-source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
In this solution PostgreSQL is used to store Starburst components such as the Hive Metastore and Query logger.