Starburst Insights

What is Starburst?

Starburst is a distributed SQL query engine that provides fast, reliable SQL access to data lake storage using Trino (formerly PrestoSQL). It enables organizations to query data across multiple data sources (like Hadoop, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and traditional databases) without moving the data. It is commonly used for data warehousing, business intelligence, and data science applications, allowing users to gain insights from their data wherever it resides.

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What other technologies are related to Starburst?

Starburst Competitor Technologies

Trino

Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) is a distributed SQL query engine designed to query data sources regardless of where the data is stored. Starburst is built upon Trino. Therefore, Trino is considered a competitor, even though Starburst leverages it.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 4% (242) of relevant job posts

Denodo

Denodo is a data virtualization platform that provides a unified view of data across different sources. It directly competes with Starburst's similar data virtualization capabilities.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 3% (137) of relevant job posts

Exasol

Exasol is an in-memory analytic database that competes with Starburst by providing high-performance query capabilities.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 6% (52) of relevant job posts

Dremio

Dremio is a data lake engine that provides SQL access to data lakes. It competes with Starburst in the data lake analytics space.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 3% (71) of relevant job posts

Databricks

Databricks provides a unified data analytics platform with a SQL engine that competes with Starburst.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 0% (554) of relevant job posts

Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehouse that competes with Starburst as a data analytics platform.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 0% (528) of relevant job posts

Presto

Presto is the predecessor to Trino, which Starburst is based on, therefore considered a competitor.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 1% (146) of relevant job posts

Spark

Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark SQL's ability to query data lakes and other sources puts it in competition with Starburst.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 0% (439) of relevant job posts

Starburst Complementary Technologies

Immuta

Immuta provides data access control and security, which complements Starburst's data access and query capabilities by ensuring data governance and compliance.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 8% (65) of relevant job posts

Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Starburst can query Iceberg tables, making it a complementary technology.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 2% (126) of relevant job posts

Collibra

Collibra provides data governance and catalog capabilities, which complement Starburst by providing metadata management and data lineage.

mentioned alongside Starburst in 1% (154) of relevant job posts