Starburst
About Starburst
Provides a data analytics platform built on an enhanced Trino SQL engine, enabling businesses to query and analyze data across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments without moving it. This approach reduces data processing time by 25% and supports complex queries over exabytes of data, streamlining insights for data teams while maintaining security and scalability.
```xml <problem> Organizations struggle to efficiently query and analyze data distributed across diverse environments, including hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud deployments. Moving data to a centralized location for analysis is time-consuming, costly, and introduces security risks. Traditional data warehouses often lack the scalability and flexibility to handle the increasing volume and complexity of modern data.</problem> <solution> Starburst provides a data analytics platform built on a distributed SQL query engine that enables organizations to access and analyze data where it resides, without requiring data movement. The platform supports querying data across various sources, including data lakes, cloud storage, and traditional databases, fostering a unified view of enterprise data. By leveraging a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, Starburst accelerates query performance and supports complex analytics workloads over exabytes of data. The platform offers enterprise-grade security, governance, and scalability, empowering data teams to derive insights faster and more efficiently while maintaining data sovereignty. Starburst's "Lakeside AI" offering brings AI to where the data resides, rather than requiring expensive data migrations. The platform allows organizations to process data where it resides, addressing the challenge of data centralization. Starburst’s new AI offering includes a conversational interface, AI workflows, and air-gapped deployment, democratizing AI for SQL developers and enabling secure data sharing.</solution> <features> - Distributed SQL query engine based on enhanced Trino - Support for querying data across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments - Massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture for high-performance analytics - Connects to +50 data sources - Integration with Apache Iceberg for data lakehouse capabilities - Data Products architecture to curate, secure, and share data - Lakeside AI offering brings AI to where the data resides - Conversational interface, AI workflows, and air-gapped deployment - Role-based access control and data masking for enhanced security - Support for Amazon S3 Tables </features> <target_audience> The primary target audience includes data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and other data professionals within enterprises seeking to unlock the value of their distributed data assets for analytics and AI initiatives. </target_audience> <revenue_model> Starburst offers both fully managed cloud (Starburst Galaxy) and self-managed (Starburst Enterprise) deployment options with pricing based on consumption and features. </revenue_model> ```
What does Starburst do?
Provides a data analytics platform built on an enhanced Trino SQL engine, enabling businesses to query and analyze data across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments without moving it. This approach reduces data processing time by 25% and supports complex queries over exabytes of data, streamlining insights for data teams while maintaining security and scalability.
Where is Starburst located?
Starburst is based in Boston, United States.
When was Starburst founded?
Starburst was founded in 2017.
How much funding has Starburst raised?
Starburst has raised $431.1M.
- Location
- Boston, United States
- Founded
- 2017
- Funding
- $431.1M
- Employees
- 505 employees
- Investors
- Alkeon CapitalFounderscircle