JPMorganChase's
Personal Guide
to Starburst
A Brief Introduction to Starburst
Starburst is the flexible data platform that delivers fast, secure access to all your data wherever it lives. Built on an open data stack with Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst unifies distributed data, across clouds, on-premises, and in hybrid environments, without complex or costly migrations, unleashing the full power of the data lakehouse for analytics and AI.
With our Lakeside AI architecture, organizations gain federated access, governed collaboration, and full data lineage, empowering compliant, scalable AI. Trusted by global leaders, Starburst helps enterprises turn data into business value.
From insights to action to AI, Starburst fuels innovation at every level.
Summarizing the JPMC Engagement With Starburst
AWM: Analytics Reporting & AI/ML Workflows
Executive Sponsors: Michael Urciuoli, Michael Heizer, Rod Thomas, Eddie Hsu, Ram Jois
Modernize Data Galaxy platform and accelerate AWS migration to streamline Advisor and DS team workflows and drive new revenue opportunities.
Federate HDFS and on prem/cloud S3 with 10-100x performance increase on Hive / Impala current solution
CIB: IBDH Data Hub
Executive Sponsors: Grant McKenzie, Prashant Reddy, Thilak Maskibal
Investment banking data hub – Modernize analytics platform and accelerate cloud migration for banking applications, reports and Data science consumers
Workforce Technology
Executive Sponsors: Andy Goldberg, Christian Winter, Erik Palfrey, Andrew Feig, Krishna Kannan
Falcon – Federated Data Lake (FDL) – federated governed data mesh / lake ecosystem on JPMC AWS public cloud (S3, LF, Oracle)
CB: Innovation Economy Platform and Enterprise BI Toolkit
Executive Sponsors: Ananth Hedge
Platform capability to enable business users to gather, analyze, and visualize business – empowering key user groups to access information required to make better data-driven decisions.
Common Themes of Use Within JPMC
Interoperability within a hybrid, complex environment
Starburst enables teams to working within the changes JPMC landscape and operate with continuity as data center of gravities shift from on-premise data centers to AWS
A Data Lake as core to data strategy
Starburst provides the best price-to-performance for AWS S3-based query engines and is uniquely capable of providing a unified access plane for both Mercury (on-premise S3) and AWS S3 simultaneously
Productized integration with governance
Starburst has productized integrations with JPMC’s strategic governance platforms, such as Immuta and OAuth2 authentication platform Idaho (ID Anywhere). Additionally, Starburst enables OAuth2 tokens passthrough for strategic sources that require this
Compliance with data sovereignty restrictions
Starburst provides a unified data access plane for data that is capable of moving into AWS, but also for data that can never move to AWS (Saudi, China, etc)
Accelerate use of emerging technologies
Starburst enables teams to rapidly prototype and deploy using emerging technologies, such as Iceberg
Critical Starburst Capabilities
Performance and Scalability
- Proven at PB scale, thousands of nodes (Citi, BOFA, FINRA)
- Performance and scalability tested by Wealth Management
- 10x more concurrency than Dremio and Athena
- 10-100x faster than Hive and Impala on Hadoop
Federated Query Engine for Data Mesh Hybrid & Multi Cloud Optionality
- Tested connectivity to JPMC Cloudera and S3
- 50+ Enhanced Performance & Parallel Connectors; Oracle, Teradata, Hive, Snowflake, S3 Data lake
- Parquet accelerator, ORC, Delta Lake, Iceberg
- Starburst Stargate, Data Products
Security & Governance
- Deployed in JPMC environment (SEALID, GKS, Authentication)
- Only vendor with a native Immuta integration
- Tested Glue integration. Lake Formation
- RBAC, ABAC, Ranger Plugin – Column & Row level OOTB
Enterprise Support & Monitoring
- Fully supported, production-tested and enterprise grade distribution of open source Trino. Version control and release management
- Starburst Insights – ability to track cluster metrics and debug queries to optimize query performance and compute resources.
Open Architecture
- Open Core Architecture – Pluggable & fully extensible by JPMC
- Vendor Agnostic – No vendor lock in, or proprietary formats
- 5000+ community members, 2000+ pull requests a year, 400 committers
Data Access for AI
- Embed unstructured data into Iceberg tables with Starburst AI Search, or access PGVector data with our connector.
- Optimize query execution for predictable workloads with multi-layer caching.
- With the Starburst AI Agent, use plain English to converse with and query trusted data products.
- Self-service semantic layer to create governed, reusable datasets that align business and IT. Quickly document and analyze data products leveraging our built-in AI agent.
Key Resources for JPMC
On-Demand Sessions
Strategic Partners
Starburst integrates with a wide range of cloud, technology, and consulting partners,
enabling you to access your data wherever and however you may need.
Customer Case Studies
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Your Dedicated Starburst Team
Meet the team working to bring JPMC’s analytics anywhere.
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