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Welcome Toni Adams, Starburst's VP, Partners and Alliances!

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of Toni Adams to our executive team as the vice president of partners and alliances! After a great stint at ThoughtSpot where he led the alliances str[...]

Starburst Elements: What is Starburst Enterprise?

Your company has more data than ever before, but your data teams are stuck waiting to analyze it.  Starburst unlocks the value of data by making it fast and easy to analyze anywhere. Starbur[...]

The Great Data Architecture Debate: Data Lake, Data Warehouse or the Data Lakehouse?

This is a crazy and slightly confusing time in the data architecture space. More and more companies are shifting toward data lakes, yet the traditional data warehouse continues to provide va[...]

Data Pandemic Stories: How Data Drives Digital Transformation in a Crisis, by Tableau

We’re excited to debut our blog series on data pandemic stories with a story from Andrew Beers, Chief Technology Officer at Tableau, a Starburst partner. The year 2020 will be etched in hist[...]

Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy

Note: I start this piece with some technical background that has nothing to do with the data mesh, and is only relevant to data warehousing insofar as it explains how the parallel database s[...]

Starburst wins the Data Breakthrough Award for “Data Access Solution of the Year”!

Starburst Global Access Control

I had a meeting a few days ago with a new customer that is a large pharmaceutical company. The conversation went something like this: Me: How is your adoption of Starburst Enterprise coming [...]

Starburst Galaxy: What’s in a Name?

Here at Starburst, we are thrilled to be bringing you our latest offering, Starburst Galaxy. This product brings the power of Starburst Enterprise to everyone, with managed infrastructure to[...]

Newly Released Independent Study Uncovers Distributed Data & Analytics Trends

  The recent pandemic has caused a massive digital shift and made the need for data access more critical than ever for 53% of the organizations, according to a recent market research, The 20[...]

Understanding the Starburst and Trino Hive Connector Architecture

After a decade of running Hive queries on their data lakes, many companies are astonished at the speeds in which they are able to query their existing Hive tables by just replacing Hive with[...]

Starburst Enterprise 350-e LTS Release

Starburst 350-e LTS Release The Starburst Enterprise 350-e LTS release includes many significant features that help Starburst customers with new and enhanced connectivity, improved performan[...]

A Gentle Introduction to the Hive Connector

TL;DR: The Hive connector is what you use in Starburst Enterprise for reading data from object storage that is organized according to the rules laid out by Hive, without using the Hive runti[...]