Fully managed end-to-end lakehouse platform built on open-source Trino and Apache Iceberg.
Starburst has announced its fully managed Icehouse implementation on Starburst’s multi-cloud data lakehouse service, Galaxy.
With the Galaxy Icehouse, customers can benefit from the scalability, performance and cost-effectiveness of a combined Trino and Iceberg architecture (Icehouse) without building and maintaining a custom solution themselves.
This announcement builds on the strong momentum of Starburst Galaxy including 3x year-over-year growth in both active customers and usage volume.
Starburst is setting new benchmarks in the industry, proven by the rapid adoption of its Galaxy platform, addressing customers’ need for an open data lakehouse architecture.
As seen in the Icehouse Manifesto, the open-source Trino query engine combined with the Apache Iceberg table format provides powerful scalability, cost-effectiveness and query performance without the risk of vendor lock-in.
The Icehouse architecture underpins some of the most sophisticated lakehouses on the planet, including those at Netflix, Apple, Shopify and Stripe.
Effectively operationalizing an Icehouse requires handling data ingestion, data governance, Iceberg data management and capacity management at scale – especially in multi-cloud environments.
Most organizations don’t have the time or expert resources required to fully implement and benefit from the Icehouse architecture.
Now, Starburst has introduced its fully managed implementation of an Icehouse in Starburst Galaxy.
Starburst’s Icehouse builds on the proven Trino SQL analytics, governance and auto-scaling capabilities in Starburst Galaxy and adds new support for near real-time data ingestion at petabyte-scale into managed Iceberg tables.
With Starburst’s Icehouse, customers’ data and development teams can use easy-to-use Structured Query Language (SQL) to prepare and optimize their data – making it available for production use in near real-time.
Further, building on the auto-tuning capabilities in Starburst Warp Speed, Starburst’s Icehouse automatically uses the optimized data to improve query performance, enabling interactive use cases without requiring costly expert tuning and code changes.
“Adding a fully managed Icehouse implementation to Starburst Galaxy marks a significant milestone in our journey to provide the most advanced and user-friendly open data analytics platform available,” said Justin Borgman, Co-founder and CEO, Starburst.
Reactions
“The move to Starburst and Iceberg has resulted in a 12x reduction in compute costs versus our previous data warehouse. This efficiency allows us to focus our attention on using analytics for revenue-generating opportunities.”
– Peter Lim, Sr. Data Engineer, Yello.
“Starburst Galaxy has been a game-changer for our team, significantly enhancing our data pipeline performance. Our analysts are thrilled with the faster response times, while our stakeholders appreciate the expedited updates to their dashboards.
– Johni Michels, Data Team Lead, Kovi.
“BestSecret transitioned from a monolithic system to a decentralized Starburst and Iceberg setup, enabling direct analytics on data – bypassing traditional data warehousing steps and achieving notable cost reductions.”
– Lutz Künneke, Director of Engineering, BestSecret
