Tag: Trino
Spark-to-Starburst Engine Swap Speeds Big Driving Data for Arity
The IT team at Arity are cruising on the homestretch of a big project to load more than a trillion miles of driving data into a new database on Amazon S3. But if it wasn’t for a decision to switch out its engine from S Read more…
Starburst CEO Justin Borgman Talks Trino, Iceberg, and the Future of Big Data
Starburst CEO Justin Borgman joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the latest industry trends in table formats, Trino and Starburst’s cloud offerings -- and maybe just a little bit of Hadoop for good measure. Bor Read more…
Snowflake Embraces Open Data with Polaris Catalog
On the first day of its Data Cloud Summit today, Snowflake unveiled Polaris, a new data catalog for data stored in the Apache Iceberg format. In addition to contributing Polaris to the open source community, the catalog Read more…
How Open Will Snowflake Go at Data Cloud Summit?
Snowflake is holding its Data Cloud Summit 24 conference next week, and the company is expected to make a slew of announcements, which you will be able to find on these Datanami pages. But among the most closely watched Read more…
Unleashing Near Real-Time Insights with Starburst’s Icehouse Architecture
The data industry loves coming up with new solutions to old problems. Starting with the database, followed by the data warehouse, and then the data lake. Now, most of what we talk about is the data lakehouse. However, we Read more…
Immuta Expands Hooks Into Starburst for Better Data Mesh Governance
Starburst and Trino users will have an easier time hammering their distributed data governance policies into place thank to a deeper set of data mesh integrations between the open data analytics engines and Immuta, the d Read more…
IBM to Showcase Open Analytics Push at PrestoCon Day
The PrestoDB community will come together this Wednesday for PrestoCon Day, the third annual virtual event showcasing the popular open source SQL engine. Representatives from Uber, Adobe, Alibaba, and TikTok will share s Read more…
IBM Embraces Iceberg, Presto in New Watsonx Data Lakehouse
IBM yesterday unveiled watsonx.data, a new data lakehouse offering for cloud and on-prem that will use object storage and Apache Iceberg, an open data format. Big Blue launched two other offerings in the new watsonx fami Read more…
Meet 2023 Person to Watch Justin Borgman
Following the dissolution of the Hadoop elephant, Presto, the successor to Apache Hive, emerged as one of the most promising open source projects. As the CEO and co-founder of Starburst, the largest commercial entity beh Read more…
Why Truly Open Communities are Vital to Open Source Technology
Every company in the world that uses software uses open source software. It just happens, because open source is packaged in so many places and arrives without anyone deciding anything. The forms filed by publicly tra Read more…
Starburst Bolsters Trino Platform as Datanova Begins
Starburst today rolled out a host of enhancements to its Trino-based analytics platform for the cloud, called Galaxy, including support for Python, new caching and indexing features, and a new data catalog. The company u Read more…
NeuroBlade Seeks Controlled Growth for Big Data Bottleneck-Buster
Early adopters of NeuroBlade’s processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture, called XRAM, are showing a 10x to 60X boost in throughput for big SQL workloads. But the company is playing it safe on the growth front, so don’ Read more…
Starburst Acquires Fellow Trino Supplier, Varada
Starburst solidified its position in the market for next-gen data analytics engines yesterday with the acquisition of Varada, a former competitor that developed and sold an analytics engine based on Presto. Terms of the Read more…
Starburst Nabs $250M for Open Analytics on Data Mesh
Starburst today announced the completion of a $250 million Series D round of financing that values the analytics company at $3.35 billion. It also unveiled new product feature as it kicked off its virtual Datanova: Data Read more…
Kubernetes Adoption Widespread for Big Data, But Monitoring and Tuning Are Issues, Survey Finds
Kubernetes may be a complex piece of software that can be difficult to monitor and manage. But the benefits of running applications in the popular container orchestration system appear to outweigh the disadvantages, beca Read more…
Starburst Unveils Cross-Cloud Analytics Service
Starburst today announced that users of its managed analytics service, Galaxy, can now access and analyze data residing in AWS, GCP, and Azure with a single query. This is an industry first for a managed service, the com Read more…
Starburst Backs Data Mesh Architecture
The emerging data mesh architecture has the potential to keep AI and analytics projects moving forward even as data storage and processing continues to disperse far and wide. One independent backer of the data mesh conce Read more…
Starburst Galaxy Manages Presto in the Cloud
The beta release of high-flying Starburst’s first managed analytics service targets the enterprise migration to multi-cloud deployments that bring with them new data access challenges. Starburst, a backer of the ope Read more…
Starburst Rides Presto to a $1.2B Valuation
Starburst today announced the completion of a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. With a $1.2 billion valuation and $164 million in total funding, Starburst, which is a big backer of the op Read more…
Presto Poised for a Breakout Year as Data Explosion Continues
Presto, the federated SQL query engine developed at Facebook as a follow-on to Apache Hive, appears to be on the cusp of breaking out in a big way. That’s good news for customers who want to analyze a wide variety of d Read more…