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Starburst Galaxy offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform that allows you to discover, manage, and consume the data in and around your data lake.
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Overview
Starburst Galaxy is a fully managed data lake analytics platform designed for large and complex data sets in and around your cloud data lake. It is the easiest and fastest way for you to start running queries at interactive speeds across data sources using the business intelligence and analytics tools you already know.
Starburst Galaxy takes just minutes to set up and takes care of the heavy lifting of designing, provisioning, maintaining, and securing your Trino infrastructure. In addition, Galaxy offers proprietary features such as fully managed connectors, global search, schema discovery, monitoring and metrics, and data sharing with data products that allow your data teams to focus on generating unique insights from your data - not managing and building analytics infrastructure.
Highlights
- Simplicity - Starburst Galaxy lets you discover, govern, and prepare your data from a single, fully-managed platform. Future-proof your architecture with a single point of access and governance to all your data, including RBAC and ABAC capabilities.
- Scalability - Built on top of a query engine designed to run at internet-scale, Starburst Galaxy automatically scales your infrastructure to the needs of your workload in just a few clicks.
- Optionality - Starburst Galaxy works with any data storage and table format, so you never have to worry about locking yourself into a proprietary data ecosystem.
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Pricing is based on the duration and terms of your contract with the vendor, and additional usage. You pay upfront or in installments according to your contract terms with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. Usage-based pricing is in effect for overages or additional usage not covered in the contract. These charges are applied on top of the contract price. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before the contract end date, access to your entitlements will expire.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
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Standard Tier | Pay as you go | $0.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
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Usage fee | $0.01 |
Dimensions summary
This listing bills through two contract dimensions. The Standard Tier uses pay-as-you-go pricing, so your cost tracks the compute you consume for analytics workloads. The Usage fee dimension applies charges based on measured usage. Both dimensions scale with how much you run rather than a fixed seat or server count. Query efficiency, workload isolation, and reduced data movement all lower how much usage you accrue. You are not choosing between fixed tiers here; you commit under contract and pay according to actual consumption over the term.
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Cost tracks the compute you consume for analytics workloads. You pay based on how much you query and run, not a fixed seat or server count. Improving query efficiency, isolating workloads, and reducing data movement all lower the compute you accrue, which lowers your bill.
Charges follow compute consumption for analytics workloads. When you run fewer or lighter queries, you accrue less usage and pay less. Because pricing is usage-based, idle periods with no active compute do not add the same charges as heavy query activity over the contract term.
Both dimensions bill on consumption rather than fixed quantities. The Standard Tier applies pay-as-you-go pricing tied to compute used, while the Usage fee charges against measured usage. Your total reflects actual analytics activity over the contract term rather than a preset seat or server commitment.
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Query Engine Architecture
Built on Trino query engine designed to operate at internet-scale with automatic infrastructure scaling capabilities
Data Source Connectivity
Supports multiple data storage systems and table formats without vendor lock-in constraints
Access Control and Governance
Implements Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) capabilities for data governance
Managed Infrastructure
Fully managed platform that handles design, provisioning, maintenance, and security of analytics infrastructure
Data Discovery and Management
Includes global search, schema discovery, and data product sharing features for data exploration and organization
Data Indexing Without Transformation
Indexes Amazon S3 data as-is without requiring parsing, schema changes, or data transformation while optimizing for both data size and performance.
SQL and Search Query Support
Enables search, SQL, and machine learning workloads on indexed S3 data with support for open APIs and native integrations with analytics tools such as Kibana, Elastic, Looker, and Tableau.
Unlimited Data Retention
Provides unlimited data retention capability enabling analysis across any time horizon without data retention limits or need for managing trade-offs between cluster resources and retained data volume.
Fully Managed Service Architecture
Operates as a fully managed service eliminating administrative overhead including re-indexing, sharding, load balancing, and management of compute and storage resources.
Direct Amazon S3 Integration
Directly indexes data stored in Amazon S3 without requiring data movement, complex data pipelines, or intermediate storage systems.
Lakehouse Architecture
Unified data foundation built on lakehouse architecture providing open, unified foundation for data and governance with support for open standards and formats
Data Intelligence Engine
Powered by Data Intelligence Engine that enables organization-wide access to data and insights across all users and roles
Multi-Workload Unification
Consolidates data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, data science and machine learning workloads on a single common platform
Open Source Foundation
Built on open source data projects and open standards to maximize flexibility and interoperability across data ecosystem
Collaborative Capabilities
Native collaboration features enabling unified data teams to collaborate across entire data and AI workflow
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Customer reviews
Computer Software
Starburst Makes Cross-Source Queries Fast and Easy
Reviewed on Sep 07, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Starburst is being able to query data across multiple sources from a single place, without having to move or duplicate anything. It delivers solid query performance and makes it easier for data and analytics teams to access and work with large datasets. I also appreciate its integrations with other data and BI tools, along with the governance and access-control capabilities it provides.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside is that Starburst can come with a learning curve, particularly when you’re dealing with more complex queries and configurations. Performance can also be inconsistent with very large datasets or highly complex queries, so some optimization may be necessary. I also feel the documentation could include more practical, hands-on examples for advanced use cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starburst helps solve the challenge of having data spread across multiple systems, which can make it hard to access and analyze. It lets us query data from different sources in one place without needing to move or duplicate it. That saves time, simplifies analysis, and makes it easier to get the information we need to support faster decision-making.
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Effortless Data Querying & Analysis
Reviewed on Sep 04, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
useless never used it I only did the review because g2.com asked and they was paying 20 or 25 euros through an ad they sent through linked in I never did any querying on its interface or ui
What do you dislike about the product?
all good I guessdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Starburst to simplify data access and avoid duplicating large amounts of data, making it easier to run queries and analyze information efficiently.
Information Technology and Services
One Query, Zero Data Movement - Starburst Nailed it!
Reviewed on Sep 02, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Starburst is the freedom to query from anywhere. There’s no vendor lock-in, no need to duplicate data, and no waiting around for pipelines to finish. I can just query what I need, right where it already lives. Overall, it feels fast, clean, and simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to pick worst thing, it would be the combination of cost and complexity. Starburst is a powerful tool, but you don’t really get the best out of it without some setup and tuning. And once people start running lots of heavy federated queries, the usage-based pricing can climb quickly unless you actively monitor it and keep it under control.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main issue for us was data fragmentation. Our data was spread across AWS, Snowflake, and on-prem systems, and Starburst brought it together under a single query layer. The benefits were clear: we save hours every week, our storage costs are lower, and we’re not locked into any one vendor. It basically solved our overall data headache in one shot.
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Clean, Unified Console for Visibility, Workload Monitoring, and Access Control
Reviewed on Sep 02, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The web console and management interface provide clean visibility into cluster health, query execution paths, and resource usage. Navigating the UI makes it straightforward to monitor active workloads, administer fine-grained access control, and manage data products from a single pane of glass without jumping across disparate cloud environments. Good project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost and Resource Tuning While the performance is exceptional, optimizing resource consumption and memory limits for massive, highly concurrent federated queries requires deep tuning expertise. Misconfigured queries or missing pushdowns can inadvertently trigger high cloud infrastructure costs. Additionally, enterprise licensing and managed service pricing can scale steeply for smaller teams, making it a platform best suited for large-scale data environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Silos and Expensive ETL Pipelines Enterprise data is naturally fragmented across multi-cloud object storage (such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage), traditional relational databases, and modern data lakehouses (like Apache Iceberg). Starburst solves the core problem of data isolation by serving as a distributed SQL query engine that allows us to query data directly where it lives—eliminating the need to build and maintain complex, brittle ETL pipelines just to run a join.
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Effortlessly Manages Diverse Data Sources
Reviewed on Sep 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Starburst lets me query data from different sources all in one place, making data management much simpler. I also appreciate the flexibility and performance it offers, especially in handling large datasets efficiently. Another thing I find valuable is that it allows working with various data without needing custom integrations, which is neat.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the learning curve for Starburst is a bit steep; it takes a while to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Starburst to manage and analyze data from different sources in one place, solving the challenge of working with data from different systems. It lets me query everything in one place, handles large datasets well, and allows flexibility without custom integrations.