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Starburst Galaxy pros and cons

Vendor: Starburst
4.7 out of 5

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PROS

Starburst Galaxy enables rapid response to questions, significantly reducing time spent from hours to minutes.
The platform is cost-efficient, integrating seamlessly with AWS and offering high performance and low-latency responses.
Starburst Galaxy unifies access to various data sources, simplifying data management and reducing the need for complex ETL processes.
It empowers organizations to rethink data strategy, facilitating a unified vision instead of maintaining multiple siloed data marts.
Starburst Galaxy delivers excellent performance on complex queries, with most completing in seconds, supporting faster decision-making across organizations.

CONS

Cluster startup time is a pain point, often taking 3 to 5 minutes, which can affect ad-hoc work.
There is a need for improvement in AI adaptability and the expansion of connectors with other tools.
Cluster spin-up time is a persistent issue.
Starburst Galaxy could benefit from discovering unstructured data and building in streaming ingestion.
There is a need for improved multi-tenancy to maintain multiple environments for SSO, connecting to different AWS accounts.
 

Starburst Galaxy Pros review quotes

NK
Advisory Solutions Architect at Dell Technologies
Apr 27, 2026
Starburst Galaxy serves the best purpose for me because if my SLAs are not met with my customers, they will raise a case, and I have tried many other tools, but Starburst Galaxy fits the best.
reviewer2816292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 10, 2026
Starburst Galaxy has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to rethink the strategy for data and architect data differently; instead of having multiple data marts and siloed data marts, we have a unified vision, and that is how it is changing.
Stephen-Howard - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Director, Technology at Spreetail
Aug 11, 2025
Starburst Galaxy is becoming a cornerstone of our data platform, empowering us to make smarter and faster decisions across the organization.
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reviewer2748021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Aug 5, 2025
Starburst on Trino, combined with our SQL-native data transformation tool SQLMesh, has delivered anywhere from a two to five times improvement in compute performance across our transformation DAG.
reviewer2749434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Aug 12, 2025
The most fundamental feature is the query engine, which is much faster than any of the competitors; Starburst is able to finish most queries within 10 seconds, which is especially important for many non-technical employees.
reviewer2750055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Officer
Aug 14, 2025
Starburst has provided us with virtually guaranteed performance on complex queries across datasets that are in the tens of gigabytes which complete in seconds.
reviewer2750067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Analytics Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Aug 14, 2025
Starburst Galaxy has significantly improved our data architecture flexibility and performance management by solving cross-database query challenges and enabling us to utilize iceberg tables externally across our entire data ecosystem.
 

Starburst Galaxy Cons review quotes

NK
Advisory Solutions Architect at Dell Technologies
Apr 27, 2026
Starburst Galaxy can be improved by discovering unstructured data and building in streaming ingestion because we are currently using Kafka for that purpose.
reviewer2816292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 10, 2026
I think there are areas of improvement with respect to AI adaptability, and also in general, the amount of connectors working with other tools are areas where it can be expanded.
Stephen-Howard - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Director, Technology at Spreetail
Aug 11, 2025
Cluster startup time can be slow, sometimes taking over a minute.
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reviewer2748021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Aug 5, 2025
The most persistent issue is the cluster spin-up time.
reviewer2749434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Aug 12, 2025
I would like Starburst to leverage AI to improve usability. Data lakes are complicated and difficult for users to explore.
reviewer2750055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Officer
Aug 14, 2025
Multi-tenancy could be improved. In order to have multiple environments for SSO, we maintain multiple tenants that are connected to different AWS accounts via the Marketplace.
reviewer2750067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Analytics Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Aug 14, 2025
Cluster startup time is another pain point, typically 3 to 5 minutes, which is not the worst with proper planning but can be annoying for ad-hoc work.