StarTree Cloud provides three deployment options built for varying requirements and allowing you to focus on the most important part — elevating the experience for your customers.
  • Shared SaaS (Public SaaS): A traditional SaaS edition of StarTree cloud is great for customers who want a low-touch experience and prefer a hassle-free, convenient SaaS service.
  • Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC): Also called Private SaaS (Dedicated SaaS), this edition of StarTree Cloud caters to customers who want additional control over how data is managed and stored.
  • Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK): Available in preview, this deployment option gives customers complete control over the StarTree Cloud infrastructure within their own Kubernetes environments, and is ideal for security-sensitive customers who require strict data controls.
There are two main components in each deployment model:
  • Data Plane: All the components required for data collection, management, and query processing along with the value-added services and tools.
  • Control Plane: Responsible for deployment, management, and coordination across all StarTree data planes.
Public SaaS and BYOC Deployment Models In a Public SaaS deployment, both the StarTree control plane and data plane are deployed in the cloud network managed by StarTree. In this case, data and queries from your cloud network are sent to the StarTree cloud network. In a BYOC deployment, the StarTree data plane is deployed in your cloud network so that it is co-located with your other data systems and applications. In this case, the StarTree control plane remotely manages the data plane. A BYOK deployment is similar to BYOC, with the added security of network isolation. The environment is managed by a local StarTree agent, which is responsible for pulling upgrade packages and configuration metadata.

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Benefits

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Public SaaS

  • Fully hands-free: You don’t need to be involved at all in administering the data plane
  • Simpler setup: You just focus on your data, your schema, and queries.
  • Isolation guarantee: Your SaaS instance is isolated from an infrastructure as well as the Pinot cluster point of view.

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BYOC

  • Compliance & Data Security: Data never leaves the customer’s security perimeter Customers have full control over who gets access to the data as well as adhere to their data compliance and governance standards.
  • Fully managed: Customers get a comprehensive SaaS-like experience without the need for any in-house expertise. They don’t need to worry about deployment, upgrades, and routine cluster maintenance.
  • SLA: Customers get the same SLA guarantees as that of a traditional SaaS deployment
  • Flexibility: Since infrastructure is deployed in the customer’s environment, they can choose from a variety of supported compute and storage instance types and advanced customizations.
  • Cost savings: Allows the customer’s cloud savings plan to be applied towards this infrastructure.
  • No persistent connection is needed between the control and the data plane.

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BYOK

  • Provides a way to completely air-gap the Pinot cluster for enhanced security.
  • Compliance & Data Security: Data never leaves the customer’s security perimeter Customers have full control over who gets access to the data as well as adhere to their data compliance and governance standards.
  • Flexibility: Since infrastructure is deployed in the customer’s environment, they can choose from a variety of supported compute and storage instance types and advanced customizations.
  • Cost savings: Allows the customer’s cloud savings plan to be applied towards this infrastructure.
  • No inbound access from Startree Control plane.
Deployment Flexibility

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Feature Checklist

FeaturePublic SaaSBYOCBYOK
Fully ManagedYesYesPartial
SLA GuaranteesYesYesPartial
24x7 SupportYesYesYes
Provisioning ComplexitySimpleSimpleModerate
Authentication and AuthorizationSupportedSupportedSupported
Isolation GuaranteesSupportedSupportedSupported
Data management and SecurityStored securely in StarTree operated clustersData never leaves customer’s compliance boundaryData never leaves customer’s compliance boundary
Data Governance and ComplianceStandardFlexible: customer dictates the policiesFlexible: customer dictates the policies
CertificationsSoc2 Type2 ISO27001 HIPAA BAASoc2 Type2 ISO27001 HIPAA BAASoc2 Type2 ISO27001 HIPAA BAA
Infrastructure CustomizationStandard compute and storage instance typesBroader range of compute and storage types to choose fromBroader range of compute and storage types to choose from
Cost OptimizationsStandard: Uses StarTree Cloud account for cloud providerCan apply customer cloud account savings for additional TCO reductionCan apply customer cloud account savings for additional TCO reduction
Software UpgradesSupportedSupportedSupported
Infrastructure UpgradesSupportedSupportedCustomer owned
Monitoring and ObservabilitySupportedSupportedSupported