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Efficient solution for data queries across multiple sources
What do you like best about the product?
When it comes to what I like most about Starburst, I believe that one of the greatest benefits is the ability to run highly complicated queries on many data sources simultaneously, and the fact that it can do it without having to shuffle the information. This makes our analysis work much easier. Integrating with reporting tools like Tableau improves our reporting by adding rich visualization on top of the provided data. The ability to quickly and effectively process complex questions further enhances the value of detailed data analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue that may be associated with using Starburst is the relatively high cost structure that may not be sustainable for teams and businesses of a moderate size. Due to this, it becomes quite challenging to justify the cost against the benefits that come with using this device. Additionally, although it is robust in many ways, there is always the issue of slow query speed when dealing with very large datasets. This occasional lag can cause havoc for data analysis and decrease the overall efficiency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starburst has revolutionized the manner in which I am able to process data from various sources as an organization. Before, consolidation of data was time consuming but today the queries that would have taken a lot of time can easily be run across different databases. It has enhanced effectiveness and expedited decision making. Another advantage that has emerged from interconnection with BI tools for additional reporting is the enhanced refinement of the strategic plans and analyses of data.
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A true game changer for many data querying processes
What do you like best about the product?
One point worth considering is that Starburst is designed to work with various data sources which means that data processing is a lot easier. The plethora of features it has especially on querying large is quite helpful in enhancing our work progression. We have connected it to other applications such as our BI tools and the data lake and no problems have arisen from it. This integration capability is a game changer because it eliminates the difficulty in managing data from multiple sources thus enhancing our workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, the main drawback of Starburst is that it is not very easy to set up, particularly for first time users. This resulted in some discrepancies in our work schedule as we anticipated in our project plan. Furthermore, owing to our rarity in its application, it took extra time to familiarise ourselves with it. The customer support is also not up to the mark at some times, they take more time to reply and on occasions this delay has messed up our working schedule as we needed immediate help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has been advantageous for Starburst to revolutionize the case of managing data across multiple sources. Before, on the other hand, acquiring data was quite a task and made our operations very slow. Now with Starburst, I can query the data from different platforms without moving and this has enhanced our working rate and decision making processes. Besides, it has positively influenced our team’s efficiency and helped to prioritize more important strategies rather than spending time on such matters as data processing.
We fixed many issues with efficient data access and querying solution
What do you like best about the product?
I personally favor Starburst for its enhancement on the query aspect and the numerous features it brings to the table. The ability to work with several sources at once is very useful and simplifies the process of querying data a lot. It has many features and I like that I can always get help from customer support when I need something explained to me. It has only been used more frequenlty in our team due the reliable and fast results it produces making it one of the most useful tools in the team.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one thing that I do not like with regards to Starburst is the fact that its interfaces are very confusing. Many of its features are not immediately obvious and can be confusing to a new user, therefore, making it take a steep learning curve. These make our onboarding time consuming occasionally leading to usage blunders. In addition, documentation is not as detailed as they ought to be, making it hard to address problems as soon as possible. These problems contribute to the decreased productivity and longer time taken to train new employees.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starburst addresses the problem of organizing data available from various sources and querying them. Indeed it has eased our working by providing insights which enable us to make good decisions within shorter time. To me and my colleagues, it translates as less time on waiting for data and more time conducting data analysis. This efficiency helps us in managing our projects better and complete our work in the time that is set for it. The compatibility with other software creates a strong and well coordinated environment in data processes.
Discover the ultimate solution for data querying
What do you like best about the product?
One thing that strikes me about Starburst is that it can issue queries across many different sources of data quickly without having to stream the data about. This has reduced my time to prepare the data and our efficiency has improved greatly as a result. Besides, the customer support is great, they are always available when we have issues. The software work is rather efficient and is not fraught with failures or crashes, thus, our tasks are solved effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
One disadvantage apparent with Starburst is that, it is quite complex to set up and this needed a lot of time and technicality to accomplish. This affected us in the sense that it slowed down our productivity especially in starting the activities of the day. Furthermore, the large number of features is a bit challenging for newcomers and may increase the time learners need to understand the product fully. These challenges we identified delayed our first implementation and training cycles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starburst makes the challenge of data fragmentation easier to address because we are able to query the data across different sources and types without the need to move the data. This has enhanced the data availability and also cut the time taken in data integration mechanism drastically. Besides, it adds value to our team since there is an opportunity to perform analyses and provide reports that contribute to faster decision making.
Supporting, tunning multiple workloads in production
What do you like best about the product?
Great support, awnser every question, very fast awnsers for first request. Great product, meet almost all ours needs. Delivery high quality and very acurate. It needs to improve on some points, but nothing that discredits or leaves something to be desired.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime we expirienced some delay in ticket loop. Should invest efforts to make some features toggleable, make it more flexible. FTE, mult-tenant, and add some query history in console, with statistics , would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
After we make starburst (trino) available to all company members, changed the way they see data. Due to the nature of Trino it can connect to multiple databases/datastores we have no more delays to delivery information.
Good, I can use it to query
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is nice, also I like that I can autocomplete some queries.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that my queries get cancelled because of limits.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using starburst to allow users to query from our Data Products, and it is a good interface.
Smooth migration. Great performance and cost efficiencies
What do you like best about the product?
We migrated to Galaxy to improve the performance of our dashboards. We had a very smooth migration to Galaxy, with excellent help from SB solution engineers. All in all, Galaxy showed out-of-the-box high performance, allowing us to generate insights more quickly and make data-driven decisions faster, and tremendous cost efficiencies
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that the user interface of the cluster can still improve in terms of its stability and convenience, and more configuration options can be added to the admin screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In addition to the smooth migration process, we have seen significant query cost savings since moving to Galaxy. Trino's query engine is highly optimized for complex analytical queries, allowing us to run queries more efficiently and with fewer resources. As a result, we have reduced our query costs by a significant amount, which has been a major benefit for our company. Since migrating to Galaxy, we have seen a significant improvement in query performance. With Trino's distributed architecture and parallel processing capabilities, we can run queries much faster than we were able to with our previous data warehouse solution. This has allowed us to generate insights and make data-driven decisions more quickly, which has been a massive advantage for our business.
Our data, previously difficult to work with, feels unlocked
What do you like best about the product?
1. Seamless querying across databases, even of different types.
2. Transparent troubleshooting.
3. Built on top of open source software. Makes troubleshooting easier!
2. Transparent troubleshooting.
3. Built on top of open source software. Makes troubleshooting easier!
What do you dislike about the product?
Only nitpicky things here, like lack of autocomplete in the UI. Also, using the same Hive metastore across multiple catalogs results in all of those catalogs showing every schema in the metastore in every catalog that uses it. Would be nice to filter those.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like I said in the beginning, it feels like we have unlocked our data for our data analysts and anyone at the organization that needs to get to some data that was previously difficult to access. Being able to query across several databases of different types is incredible and working seamlessly. Hard to imagine working without it at this point.
Implementing Starburst within a Lakehouse Architecture
What do you like best about the product?
Starburst is great for acting as a Data Federation Hub. It is simple to configure new connectors and getting those up and running very quickly.
Starburst integration and acceleration of iceberg based data in S3 was the key selling point for us. Enabling our vision of a Lakehouse based on AWS .
Starburst integration and acceleration of iceberg based data in S3 was the key selling point for us. Enabling our vision of a Lakehouse based on AWS .
What do you dislike about the product?
The public facing documentation does not quite cover all the nuances of installation and configuration. We encounter a couple of scenarios where the documentation didn't go far enough with instructions. However, the account team were able to fill in the gaps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our challenge was allowing a single interface for data consumers and production processes to query across our established data warehouse and our lakehouse. Allowing us to link data that could not be linked before.
Ingest and Act on Data Faster
What do you like best about the product?
Starburst has empowered our team to take large data sets and really understand how those datasets will optimize our business model. Starburst has a UI that makes this process both easy and seamless as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Starburst's concept offers a straightforward approach toward obtaining helpful data in an ingestible way, at times the connectors/integrations do not work as expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For our team, we encounter large lead lists and analytics on performances by our teams, partners, and affiliates. Starburst allows us to identify areas of both strength and weakness that we previously would spend hours sifting through to understand.
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