Starburst vs. Athena
What is Starburst Galaxy?
Starburst Galaxy is a price-performant, fully managed, multi-cloud data and analytics platform powered by Trino, a leading open-source distributed MPP SQL query engine. Starburst Galaxy is used for both interactive ad-hoc analytics and long-running workloads like batch and ETL/ELT, and offers high scalability and query completion rates even as the amount of data, query volume, and query complexity increases. The service runs federated queries across data lakes, cloud data warehouses, on-premises databases, and relational data management systems like PostgreSQL and MySQL. Galaxy also supports fault-tolerant execution, smart indexing and caching, Data Products, and universal search and schema discovery.
What is Amazon Athena?
Amazon Athena, available in serverless and dedicated versions, is a query service that analyzes data in Amazon Web Services (primarily Amazon S3) using standard SQL for ad-hoc analytics. Amazon Athena serverless has no infrastructure for customers to manage, and they only pay for queries that run. Amazon Athena was originally built on a fork of Presto (PrestoDB version .217), originally released in January 2019.
Starburst is a Leader in Enterprise Big Data Analytics
Don’t take our word for it. Starburst is named #1 for Quality of Support and Ease of Use in G2 Crowd’s Grid Report based on real customer reviews. Additionally, customers said this about Starburst:
- 100% of users rated Starburst 4+ stars
- 100% of users believe Starburst is headed in the right direction
- 96% meets users requirements
- 93% of users would recommend
Simplicity
Going beyond key platform governance and management capabilities, a modern data and analytics platform empowers data teams with easy-to-use functionality that increases productivity without adding complexity. It allows businesses to use a range of existing investments in just a few clicks. It enables data teams to easily discover, create, govern, analyze and share federated data products from distributed data sets across the organization.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 8, 2024.
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Access
True data access empowers organizations with the ability to use all their data, no matter where it lives, across data lakes, data warehouses, and databases while having confidence in security and governance controls. True access is about meeting business needs on time while adhering to regulatory data sovereignty requirements. Your open lakehouse should free your data sources for analytics and AI, not confine them in another way.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 8, 2024.
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Scalability
Internet scale matters in an internet-powered world but not every workload needs that power and performance. Your open data lakehouse, p0wers modern data and analytics and puts control of performance and costs in your hands. It ensures high-performance scalability is available at a click of a button or automatically when you need it most while optimizing price-to-performance for all analytics workloads. It also instills confidences that queries will execute as scheduled, even at high concurrencies.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 8, 2024.
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Optionality
Open file and table formats are table stakes in providing optionality. Your open lakehouse goes beyond the fundamentals to ensure your business has full control over your data by accessing data where it lives across hybrid and multi-cloud data architectures, by allowing choice in cloud providers, security, and BI tools, and ensuring expert Trino support is available if and when your teams need it most.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of July 8, 2024.
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We were using data in the way we could. It was getting more expensive, slower, and feeble. We had to change our approach and look for other ways of enabling our users without infrastructure penalties. We were over-run by the limitations of our latest solution [Athena]... Starburst gives us a single platform to explore more data through connectivity, maintain data quality and governance, and provide the data to all of our employees using their visualization tools of choice.
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Start for Free with Starburst Galaxy
Up to $500 in usage credits included
Discover
Easily search across data sources and clouds to find the data you need.
Govern
Streamline data governance with built-in RBAC and ABAC.
Analyze
Run internet-scale workloads with the power of Trino.
Fast
Accelerate queries with smart indexing and caching technologies like Warp Speed.
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