Stop moving data.Start using it.

Access and query data across systems with a unified context layer. No pipelines or copying required.

100,000+
ETL pipelines eliminated
50%
lower cost than CDW
2.5x
faster than Trino

Starburst is trusted by:

British Airways
Citi
Optum
Lockheed Martin
Comcast
ZoomInfo
S&P Global
Rippling
Royal Bank of Canada
SpotHero

The Starburst Difference

Your AI is only as good as your data context.

Put one governed intelligence layer over the data you already have. So every decision, analyst, and AI agent gets trusted answers without moving a byte.

AI that answers from your data

Get governed, real-time access to every source: no hallucinations, no ungoverned shortcuts.

No migration required

Query across Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon S3, Postgres, and 50+ more in a single SQL statement: in place, without copying a byte.

Open by design, no lock-in

Built on OS Trino and Apache Iceberg. Runs in the cloud, on-premise, and in hybrid environments. Your data, your infrastructure, your competitive advantage.

Cloud data warehouses
Data lakes (Amazon S3, ADLS)
Databases
Streaming & SaaS
Starburst

Federated · governed · open

Analysts & business users
BI tools
AIDA
AI agents (via MCP)

No data copying required · Open Apache Iceberg · Runs in cloud, hybrid & on-prem

Capabilities

Raw data. Trusted answers. Without moving a byte.

Five integrated layers: from connecting data all the way to insight. Each one open, governed, and AI-ready from day one.

Platform Layers
Ingest

Land data in Iceberg.
Under 60 seconds.

Stream from Kafka or batch ingest CSV, JSON, and AVRO. Two latency modes to match your workload.

Icehouse Ingest: Schematize data
Starburst Icehouse schematize-data screen, mapping incoming messages and files to columns in a target schema.
Maintain

Open data lakehouse.
Zero ops.

LakeOps keeps every Iceberg table healthy automatically: compaction, snapshot expiry, and orphan file removal run on a dedicated serverless engine that never touches your cluster.

Icehouse LakeOps
Starburst Icehouse LakeOps dashboard showing managed table health, compaction efficiency, and storage savings.
Federate

One SQL query.
Every source.

Get answers from 50+ data sources in one query, instantly, securely, and without building a single pipeline.

Cross-Source Query
Starburst catalog explorer running a single SQL query that joins federated Postgres and MySQL sources with no copying.
Contextualize

Raw tables become
trusted Data Products.

Add ownership, business definitions, and lineage. Certified data products give every team and every AI agent the same trusted ground truth.

Data Product Catalog
Starburst data product cards showing publish status, ownership, and ratings for certified data products.
Ask Anything

Every answer.
Grounded in truth.

AIDA turns natural language questions into governed insights, powered by data products. Available via a customizable interface or MCP.

Starburst Agent
Starburst Agent chat answering a natural-language question about customer growth with a generated bar chart.

Choose your path

Built for the whole team.

For Executives

Make AI real.

  • Enterprise intelligence at the speed of your business
  • Trusted, AI-driven decisions across every business domain
  • Lower total cost by querying in place, not duplicating data or replatforming
For Architects & Engineers

Validate it yourself, today.

  • Connect to 50+ sources in minutes
  • Open architecture
  • Governance and workload isolation at enterprise scale

Powered by Trino

Built by the creators of Trino. Hardened for the enterprise.

Starburst was founded on the fastest OS query engine for data federation, Trino. Starburst adds workload isolation, Iceberg optimization, security, and 24/7 support, so you get elite performance and scale with the power of open-source Trino.

Deploy your way

One platform. Your environment.

Fully managed in the cloud

Starburst Galaxy

Get started in minutes. A fully managed SaaS platform on AWS, GCP, and Azure: perfect for cloud-first teams who want speed and simplicity with ops handled for them.

Self-managed, anywhere

Starburst Enterprise

Maximum control across private cloud, hybrid, and on-prem. Built for regulated enterprises with data residency, sovereignty, and high-availability requirements.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

It's a platform that turns distributed, governed data into trusted answers and AI-driven decisions — without first centralizing the data. Starburst combines federated access, a governed context layer, and an AI interface (AIDA) over the data you already have.
Snowflake and Databricks are destination platforms — you move your data into them. Starburst is the fabric: it queries and governs data where it already lives, across any source, cloud, or on-prem, with no replatforming and no lock-in.
Yes. Starburst exposes governed data products with ownership, policy, and quality built in, and serves them to AI agents through a governed MCP query endpoint — so agents get trusted, policy-enforced access without bypassing security.
Starburst's high-performance Trino engine connects to 50+ sources — data warehouses, data lakes, databases, and SaaS — and runs a single federated query across them in place, applying consistent governance.
Yes. Starburst Enterprise is self-managed across private cloud, hybrid, and on-prem with full control over residency and security. Starburst Galaxy is the fully managed cloud option on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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