Head of Data at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
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Aug 12, 2025
The price is reasonable and controllable. For example, you have a fixed-size cluster and the cost is predictable. Queries may slow during rush hours, but there is no spike in billing.
Staff Data Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
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Aug 1, 2025
You pay for cluster uptime. It is important to be aggressive about autoscaling, as a single worker will get you a long way. I recommend never connecting a BI tool to your Galaxy cluster. Instead, write the data to Postgres or a hot database and serve it from there so you don't pay for expensive uptime to serve dashboards.
Chief Architecture Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
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Jul 30, 2025
Pricing for Starburst Galaxy is competitive compared to running my own workloads using open source alternatives. I recommend you consider the total cost of ownership when deciding whether Starburst Galaxy is a good fit for your organization.
Starburst Galaxy offers rapid query speeds and robust cluster management, enhancing data engineering efficiency while supporting AWS integrations and cross-database functionality. Users benefit from its advanced data integration and federated querying capabilities.Starburst Galaxy stands out with a compute-focused architecture that excels in facilitating seamless data integration. Technological innovations like autoscaling clusters and automated metadata management optimize operations in...
I recommend experimenting with different cluster sizes to determine what works best for your particular use case.
The price is reasonable and controllable. For example, you have a fixed-size cluster and the cost is predictable. Queries may slow during rush hours, but there is no spike in billing.
You pay for cluster uptime. It is important to be aggressive about autoscaling, as a single worker will get you a long way. I recommend never connecting a BI tool to your Galaxy cluster. Instead, write the data to Postgres or a hot database and serve it from there so you don't pay for expensive uptime to serve dashboards.
Pricing for Starburst Galaxy is competitive compared to running my own workloads using open source alternatives. I recommend you consider the total cost of ownership when deciding whether Starburst Galaxy is a good fit for your organization.