Starburst

Trino is a high performance distributed ANSI SQL engine for running fast analytic queries and batch workloads against various data sources ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes. Designed for the separation of storage and compute, Trino scales on demand, and eliminates the time and cost of integrating disparate data into a single data warehouse.

Starburst provides enterprise distributions of Trino and was created to help large companies securely extract more value from their Trino deployments.  With Starburst, enterprises have more Trino tools at their disposal, global security with fine-grained access controls, stable & reliable releases, and guidance and support from the most qualified group of Trino experts anywhere. With Starburst, your data architects, business intelligence analysts, and machine learning and AI teams have fast, reliable, stable access to the data they need to do their best work —no matter where that data resides.

The main offerings from Starburst are Starburst Enterprise and Starburst Galaxy.  Starburst Galaxy is an easy to use, fully-managed and enterprise-ready SaaS offering of Trino while Starburst Enterprise is the self-managed offering.

Starburst provides users with fast access to all of their data, no matter where it lives.  Starburst connects directly to each data source and pulls the data back into memory for processing, alleviating the need to copy or move the data into a single location first.  As a result, Starburst helps organizations solve their business problems by addressing the following use cases:

Data Lakehouse Analytics

• Warehouse-like capabilities without the warehouse
• True separation of storage and compute for true customization of cost vs performance
• Power your lakehouse architecture with no vendor lock-in and support for open file formats
• With 50+ modern and legacy source connectors into your data lake, no data source is left behind

Query Federation

• Run SQL queries across any data source, no matter what it is or where it lives
• Reduce unnecessary data movement, which improves security and compliance, minimizes risk and reduces cost
• Democratize analytics by providing a single point of access to all available data

ETL/Batch Processing

• One high performance query engine for both interactive and batch workloads
• Use ANSI SQL for data transformations and for building new data pipelines
• Configurable fault tolerance capabilities

Data Products

• Provides a domain-driven approach to data democratization
• Unlock domain-specific insights and enable effortless publishing/management/discovery of curated data sets
• Increase business agility, eliminating days, weeks and months of delays to update data pipelines
• Platform connectivity and data security eliminates the need for costly and complex data centralization

Embedded Engine

• Bring the power of insights to any application
• High concurrency, fast query performance and elastic scalability as your data app grows
• Cost-based optimization keeps operating expenses low as usage grows
• Robust connector support for all of the data your application needs
• Fine grained access control keeps your data secure

While the open source technology that Starburst is built on (Trino) is free to use, Starburst provides numerous enterprise-grade features including enhanced connectors, native security integrations, optimized performance and 24×7 support.  To get access to these features, an enterprise license must be purchased from Starburst.

Licensing is done at the cluster level and not the user level.  A capacity-based pricing model is used and is calculated based on the number of vCPUs that are running in the cluster.