Starburst and Zing: A modern data experience that’s out of this world

Despite best efforts at centralization, modern data lives in a lot of places – from cloud databases to modern data lakes to legacy data warehouses. Accessing, governing, and querying all of that data is difficult and means managing lots of disparate tools. Starburst Galaxy provides a single unified interface for these data teams from which they can access and govern the data in and around their data lake.

The crucial next step in empowering data teams is making that data available to the entire organization, anywhere they want to get work done. 

Zing Data empowers teams, large or lean, to ask questions using natural language, create visualizations in a few clicks, set up real time alerts, and collaborate. Driven by powerful large language models and an intuitive visual interface, Zing makes data useful to anybody within a company – whether they are in front of a computer or out in the field.

Accessing any data, anywhere

While Starburst Galaxy’s cross-cloud querying functionality means you can access all your data, Zing Data’s mobile app lets you query and visualize that data on the go. 

Example Starburst Galaxy and Zing Data architecture

Running Starburst Galaxy with Zing Data enables querying data in three ways:

• Visually, with an drag-and-drop query builder, complete with a live preview
• Using SQL, with helpful autocomplete prompts
•  Using natural language (powered by OpenAI and Google’s PALM2)

Activating OpenAI queries on Starburst Galaxy

With Zing’s native iOS and Android apps you never need to wait for somebody to create a dashboard or write SQL – simply ask a question using natural language.

It’s easy to use too, simply:

1. Create a Zing Data account
2. Add Starburst Galaxy as your data source from iOS, Android or web versions of Zing
3. Go to ‘sources’ and type your natural language question in the search bar. You’ll see a big button “Text-to-question”. Tap it.
4. Your question will run using OpenAI’s GPT-3 Codex text to SQL engine against your data source.

Examples of leading data teams leverage Starburst Galaxy with Zing Data

A major convenience store chain tracks store-level performance and allows store managers to see what products are selling best to optimize product mix, right on their mobile phones 

A fast-growing SaaS company uses Galaxy to centralize disparate data sources and Zing easily powers analytics across product, engineering, and marketing data sources

A genomics company uses Zing’s mobile app to track precision / recall of models that are continuously updated and re-run, and to share results with leadership on the go

A video conferencing company uses Zing to analyze user behavior and @mention people on the team to start various campaigns for growth

A real estate firm monitors recent transactions – even when they’re out in the field between showings and sales calls.

Getting Started

Starburst Galaxy’s Zing Data integration is a powerful connector that enables users to query and visualize data on mobile devices web and run advanced OpenAI queries on all their data.

Whether you’re a data engineer, data analyst, or a business user, the new Zing Data integration can help you and your team make better decisions in real-time. Starburst Galaxy and Zing Data are both cloud-native and offer free trials, so you can be up and running in minutes.

For detailed information on how to get started, visit docs.