Scale beyond Snowflake with Starburst
Starburst empowers data teams to quickly support new workloads in a cost-efficient manner by letting teams performantly query data in object storage. With Starburst running alongside your cloud data warehouse, you can choose which workloads to push into your data warehouse, adding openness and flexibility to your data architecture.
50-75%
faster time to insight realized at a multi-national bank
#1
Quality of Support and Product Direction in G2’s Grid Report
Snowflake challenges encountered at scale
Initially, Snowflake meets modern user expectations with features designed for high performance, ease of use, and guaranteed reliability. But as usage scales, costs skyrocket and team productivity suffers.
Data teams slowed down
Majority of time spent on administrative tasks – tuning clusters and optimizing queries to manage costs
Backlog increases
List of new projects and business asks grow as overall productivity of the data team slows down
Commits burned through
Actual costs outpace estimates, placing team budgets under scrutiny
Starburst is a High Performer in Data Warehousing
Don’t take our word for it. Starburst is named #1 for Quality of Support and Product Direction in G2’s Enterprise Grid Report based on real customer reviews. Additionally, customers said Starburst beat out Snowflake in all of these categories:
- Ease of Use
- Product Direction
- Data Integration
- Quality of Support
- Data Visualization
- Hadoop Integration
- WYSIWYG Report Design
Databricks Comparison Factors to Consider
When looking for a data lakehouse solution, you should look for one that lets you pick your open formats, easily works with your data in and around the data lake, and is a hybrid solution, supporting on-premises and in the cloud data storage.
Simplicity
Going beyond platform governance and management capabilities, Starburst empowers data teams with easy-to-use functionality that increases productivity without adding complexity. It allows teams to use a range of existing investments in just a few clicks. It helps to break down data silos and build federated data products from distributed data sets to support use cases and scale self-service usage and adoption across the organization.
Access
True data access empowers data teams 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. Most cloud data warehouses require you to dump your source data into a lake before ingesting a portion of that data into the warehouse. Starburst eliminates the need for those extra pipelines by running directly on top of your object storage.
Scalability
Today’s data teams need to manage performance and costs. Internet scale matters in an internet-powered world but not every workload needs the highest levels of power and performance – especially as costs go up at a faster rate than performance. Starburst saves customers anywhere from 50% to 75% on their cloud bills by helping customers transform and query data on their data lake without needing to push it all into a data warehouse.
Optionality
Open file and table formats are table stakes in providing optionality. Starburst helps you optimize your architecture (and your budget) by providing you with the ability to make deliberate decisions about where to run workloads (on the lake or in a warehouse) without added complexity. Optionality also means that your SQL scripts are easily transferable to new data architectures and platforms when you need them to move without requiring massive undertakings in conversion and rewriting.
Simplicity
Going beyond platform governance and management capabilities, Starburst empowers data teams with easy-to-use functionality that increases productivity without adding complexity. It allows teams to use a range of existing investments in just a few clicks. It helps to break down data silos and build federated data products from distributed data sets to support use cases and scale self-service usage and adoption across the organization.
Access
True data access empowers data teams 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. Most cloud data warehouses require you to dump your source data into a lake before ingesting a portion of that data into the warehouse. Starburst eliminates the need for those extra pipelines by running directly on top of your object storage.
Scalability
Today’s data teams need to manage performance and costs. Internet scale matters in an internet-powered world but not every workload needs the highest levels of power and performance – especially as costs go up at a faster rate than performance. Starburst saves customers anywhere from 50% to 75% on their cloud bills by helping customers transform and query data on their data lake without needing to push it all into a data warehouse.
Optionality
Open file and table formats are table stakes in providing optionality. Starburst helps you optimize your architecture (and your budget) by providing you with the ability to make deliberate decisions about where to run workloads (on the lake or in a warehouse) without added complexity. Optionality also means that your SQL scripts are easily transferable to new data architectures and platforms when you need them to move without requiring massive undertakings in conversion and rewriting.
Value across industries
Retail & CPG
BestSecret first implemented open source Trino to combat rising Snowflake costs, then turned to Starburst’s enterprise-grade solution.
By deploying Starburst, BestSecret reduced costs by 70% and achieved a decentralized, zero ELT approach with the ability to federate across sources and analyze the data where it sits.
Telecommunications
Comcast built a hybrid analytics platform, powered by Starburst and Trino, to provide end users easy access to datasets across data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and data lakes.
The platform pulls in 250-300 TBs of data daily, enabling real-time data exploration while reducing data warehouse spend, ETL, and labor costs.
Financial Services
doxo’s process of joining data from disparate sources to their data warehouse was time-consuming and labor intensive.
By using Starburst as an abstraction layer, analysts are able to quickly query data in multiple databases and warehouses simultaneously without ETL, simplifying millions of daily transactions.
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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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