# Starburst Galaxy: A romance of many architectures

DevFeed: [Starburst Galaxy: A romance of many architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/starburst-galaxy-a-romance-of-many-architectures-8731.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://trino.io/blog/2023/07/25/trino-fest-2023-datto.html>)

Author: Benjamin Jeter, Ryan Duan

Published: 2023-07-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trino Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trino-blog.md>)

Topics: [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Apache Iceberg](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apache-iceberg.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [batch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/batch.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents a reference architecture used by Datto to provide modular, reproducible data access. It describes a design using Trino with Starburst Galaxy, a daily batch transformation from JSON to Apache Iceberg, and an external table that supports near-real-time query access without a streaming system such as Kafka or Kinesis.

## Source excerpt

Let's cut straight to the chase with this lightning talk from Benjamin Jeter, a data architect, platform manager, and data engineer at Datto. For those that are not familiar with Datto, they are an American cybersecurity and data backup company. They're the leading global provider of security and cloud-based software solutions purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). In Benjamin's talk, he goes through some of the considerations and design goals of a reference architecture pattern that they use and why they chose to use Trino with Starburst Galaxy.