
Checkatrade's Personal Guide to Starburst


A Brief Introduction to Starburst
A single point of access to query data that lives in any data system
Based on open source Trino, Starburst gives you the flexibility to run federated
interactive and ETL workloads using a single query engine, significantly reducing data
movement delays and costs.
From globally dispersed internal data to 3rd party data, Starburst empowers customers
to make informed risk mitigation, revenue-generating, and process optimization
decisions while adhering to data sovereignty, regulatory, and data security requirements.

Why Starburst?
Faster Time to Insight & Business Agility
With a single point of access across Checkatrade data sources (e.g Hadoop, Teradata & AWS S3), Starburst provides the fastest way to access data with use cases across fraud, reporting, Customer 360 and trade reporting.
Accelerate Cloud Migration
Enable hybrid data use cases across cloud and on premise data sources while removing business disruption and respecting data residency requirements.
Reduce Cost
Minimize expenses associated with on-premise technology and infrastructure while simultaneously decreasing ETL and data replication.
Redefine Customer Experiences
Customer 360: Recommend the next best products and services based on the most recent interactions by building a complete and real-time Customer 360 data product with secure access across the organization.
Underwriting optimization: Take your underwriting game to the next level with a complete KYC. Quickly and reliably processes data to enable real-time decisions, provide customers with immediate outcomes, and gain greater confidence in acceptable exposures and risks.
Analytics on the edge: Empower customers with insights. Embed Starburst as the query engine to power real-time analytics into any application, product, portal, workflow, or process, and create new value-added services and revenue streams.
Driving Innovation at Checkatrade with Starburst
Data Federation
Starburst helps you connect and federate different data sources, in and around your data lake. One important thing to remember is that we only connect the data without collecting it, providing you with a secure and extremely performant single point of access to all your data.
Data Lake Analytics
For data-driven companies, Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform, including capabilities needed to discover, organize, and consume data on a data lake without the need for time-consuming and costly migrations.
Enable self-service BI
Use the analytics tools and platforms your team already knows and loves while accessing data that lives anywhere, removing any bottlenecks that prevent data-driven decision-making and slow down innovation.
Take a quick tour of Starburst Galaxy!
Your storage, our platform
Discover, govern, query, and share your data – all from a single platform.
Key Resources for Checkatrade






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.








Your Dedicated Starburst Team
Meet the team working to bring Checkatrade’ analytics anywhere.
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