Dremio Chose SAP.
We Chose You.
Why It’s Time to Switch to Starburst
Your Data is Still Siloed
Querying across cloud storage, warehouses, databases, and on-prem from a single engine shouldn’t require tradeoffs. With Dremio’s limited connectors and failure at high concurrency, it still does. Starburst offers:
- 50+ Connectors
- Best price, performance, and reliability for interactive SQL at high concurrency
- Fully managed in the cloud and private cloud, self-managed anywhere.
Your Open Platform Just Got Closed
Dremio’s cloud product is on hold, there’s no migration path from v25 to v26, and the roadmap now belongs to SAP. Don’t trust your Iceberg strategy to Dremio – choose Starburst as the best data platform for Iceberg.
- Batch + Streaming Ingest to Iceberg
- Automated Iceberg Table Maintenance
- Icehouse LakeOps Observability
Your AI Agents Are Only as Good as the Data They Trust.
Text-to-SQL gets agents to your data. It doesn’t ensure they understand it. Dremio’s semantic layer labels data but enforces no business rules — Starburst’s Enterprise Context Layer governs how every agent reasons over your data, so every answer traces back to a trusted source.
- Enterprise Context Layer
- Data Products as Code
- MCP Server and Endpoint
Customers Agree: Starburst Beats Dremio.
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 Starburst beat out Dremio in all of these categories:
- Meets Requirements
- Ease of Use
- Ease of Admin
- Quality of Support
- Data Visualization
- Multi-Source Analysis
Feature Comparison
Connectors & Federation
✓ 50+ connectors
~ ~28, lakehouse-focused
Performance & Concurrency
✓ 30-40% faster, 55% cheaper at scale
~ Fast single-threaded, ✗ fails at concurrency 2+
Deployment Flexibility
✓ Cloud, K8s, VM, on-prem
~ SaaS on hold, ✗ K8s only, no v25→v26 migration
Governance & Security
✓ Fine-grained RBAC/ABAC, no telemetry
~ Strong on Lakehouse, weak on federation
✗ on-prem installation sends usage data back to Dremio servers by default
Open Table Formats
✓ Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi with real-time Kafka streaming ingest, serverless automated table maintenance (compaction, vacuuming, statistics), and LakeOps health observability
~ Iceberg support with basic ingest / ✗ no native streaming ingest, no serverless table maintenance, no lakehouse health observability
Platform Trajectory
✓ Independent, open-source Trino roadmap
✗ Proprietary engine, SAP-owned roadmap
AI Capabilities
✓ Enterprise Context Layer governs business definitions, access policies, and metadata in a single package so every team and AI agent reasons from the same trusted source
~ Semantic layer labels and organizes data / ✗ enforces no business rules; no packaged governance for AI agents
Switching to Starburst Is Easy.
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Query your existing Iceberg tables immediately — no data migration required
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No SQL rewrites — Starburst is ANSI SQL compatible
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Flexible deployment — no Kubernetes requirement, unlike Dremio v26
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Dremio Reflections don’t migrate to any platform; Starburst delivers performance natively without rebuilding acceleration logic
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Starburst Professional Services supports your migration end to end
