Starburst Galaxy May 2023 roundup: Optimizing for price-performance

Starburst Galaxy has introduced new cluster execution modes to enhance price-performance optimization for data workloads, offering three options: Standard, Fault Tolerant, and Accelerated. Standard mode is the default and is suited for ad-hoc and exploratory analytics, while Fault Tolerant mode, in public preview, allows queries to retry in case of failures, ideal for long-running transformations like ETL processes. Accelerated mode, also in public preview, leverages Starburst Warp Speed's smart indexing and caching to boost query performance by up to seven times, though it is currently limited to four AWS regions. Users can select their preferred execution mode through the Starburst Galaxy user interface, either when creating a new cluster or modifying an existing one.