# Starburst

Starburst is an enterprise intelligence platform built on Trino and Apache Iceberg. It runs SQL queries across data warehouses, data lakes, databases and SaaS sources in place, without copying the data. It is offered as a managed cloud service (Starburst Galaxy) and as a self-managed deployment (Starburst Enterprise).

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/starburst · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2017
- Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Employees: 501–1,000
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series C
- Deployment: Managed cloud (Starburst Galaxy) and self-managed (Starburst Enterprise), across cloud, hybrid and on-premises
- Best for: Large enterprises and regulated organizations that need governed SQL access to data spread across clouds and on-premises systems without migrating it.

## Products

- Starburst Galaxy: Fully managed SaaS platform on AWS, GCP and Azure.
- Starburst Enterprise: Self-managed deployment across private cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.
- AIDA: AI assistant that turns natural-language questions into answers over governed data products.
- Data Product Catalog: Adds ownership, business definitions and lineage to tables as certified data products.
- Icehouse LakeOps: Serverless engine that compacts Iceberg tables, expires snapshots and removes orphan files.
- Icehouse Ingest: Streams data from Kafka or batch-loads CSV, JSON and Avro into Iceberg tables.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Warehouse | 38 of 39 | 0.0 | 0 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| google_ai_mode | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| perplexity | 0.0 | 0.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Starburst AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/starburst, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).