Apache Iceberg Time Travel & Rollbacks in Trino
By: Tom Nats
December 7, 2022
This post is part of the Iceberg blog series. Read the entire series: Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in…
Apache Iceberg Schema Evolution in Trino
By: Tom Nats
November 22, 2022
This post is part of the Iceberg blog series. Read the entire series: Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in…
Apache Iceberg DML (update/delete/merge) & Maintenance in Trino
By: Tom Nats
November 17, 2022
This post is part of the Iceberg blog series. Read the entire series: Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in…
Explore A New Way Of Utilizing A Data Lakehouse
By: Monica Miller, Tom Nats
November 10, 2022
What is a Data Lakehouse? A data lakehouse combines the principles of a data lake and a data warehouse to include the best of both…
Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in Trino
By: Tom Nats
November 8, 2022
This post is part of the Iceberg blog series. Read the entire series: Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in…
Introduction to Apache Iceberg In Trino
By: Tom Nats
October 20, 2022
This post is part of the Iceberg blog series. Read the entire series: Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino Iceberg Partitioning and Performance Optimizations in…
Building Reporting Structures on S3 using Starburst Galaxy and Apache Iceberg
By: Tom Nats
October 4, 2022
AWS S3 has become one of the most widely used storage platforms in the world. Companies store a variety of data on S3 from application…
A Better Solution For Managing and Maintaining Data Pipelines, Now In Public Preview
By: Russell Christopher, Brian Zhan, Dan Codeluppi, Tom Nats
July 6, 2022
Customers who want a single, super fast and easy-to-use solution for both interactive and longer-running data pipeline queries now have a solution: take advantage of…
Introducing Great Lakes Connectivity for Starburst Galaxy
By: Tom Nats
May 4, 2022
We’re excited to announce Great Lakes connectivity for Starburst Galaxy with the latest release. This new feature enables connectivity to numerous data lakehouse file and…
The 2022 State of Data: A Sneak Peek
By: Tom Nats
March 10, 2022
I participated in a panel discussion with Karl Eklund, Principal Architect at Red Hat, and William Schnoeppner, Director of Research and Consulting at EMA at…
Part 2 of Current Data Patterns Blog Series: Data Lakehouse
By: Tom Nats
December 6, 2021
As companies shift their analytical ecosystems from on-premise to cloud and try to avoid “data lock-in”, we’re noticing some very interesting data patterns. This series…
Azure Data Lake: Powered by Starburst Galaxy
By: Tom Nats
December 2, 2021
Earlier this week, we announced the launch of Starburst Galaxy on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Starburst Galaxy is the new fully-managed SaaS service from Starburst…
Part 1 of Current Data Patterns Blog Series: Hybrid Distributed Data Store and RDBMS
By: Tom Nats
August 12, 2021
As companies shift their analytical ecosystems from on-premise to cloud and try to avoid “data lock-in”, we’re noticing some very interesting data patterns. This series…
Azure Data Mesh: Powered by Starburst
By: Tom Nats
August 4, 2021
Microsoft has migrated thousands of customers to its Azure cloud platform and has quickly become the second most popular cloud provider. Companies have easily transitioned…
Starburst Global Access Control
By: Tom Nats
March 16, 2021
I had a meeting a few days ago with a new customer that is a large pharmaceutical company. The conversation went something like this: Me:…
Starburst Secrets – Hiding Sensitive Presto Credentials
By: Tom Nats
August 26, 2020
As Presto continues to rapidly become the SQL engine of choice powering the modern big data consumption layer, security is at the top of our…
The Death of Apache Drill
By: Tom Nats
August 6, 2020
One of the things that really drew me to and got me excited about Presto over 4 years ago was that it wasn’t tied to…
How to Optimize Presto Performance with Different Storage Layers
By: Tom Nats
June 4, 2020
Customers sometimes ask how they can make Presto even faster. One of my first questions back to them is “what are you using for your…
Starburst 332-e Release
By: Tom Nats
April 6, 2020
Another quarter, another huge release from our engineering team here at Starburst. The main focus of this release is performance and security. This major release…
Starburst Presto 323e Released With Many New Features & Connectors
By: Tom Nats
November 27, 2019
It’s been a very busy quarter for us here at Starburst. We have doubled in size. Our engineering team has been heads-down to their keyboards.…
Databricks and Starburst Presto = A True Unified, Open Analytics Platform
By: Tom Nats
July 19, 2019
I remember it clearly, it was 2 o'clock in the morning back in the ancient year of 2000. I was working for a .com loading…
Starburst Presto & Databricks Delta Lake Support
By: Tom Nats
June 13, 2019
TL;DR - Starburst Data is excited to announce Presto Databricks Delta Lake compatibility. Delta Lake The big data ecosystem has many components…
