Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform on NVIDIA Vera

The Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform, running on the NVIDIA Vera, was benchmarked against Intel Xeon 6 and AMD EPYC Zen 5 platforms to evaluate modern server CPU performance for large-scale SQL analytics workloads. Utilizing the TPC-DS benchmark and Apache Iceberg tables, the study highlighted that NVIDIA Vera provided approximately three times faster query throughput and up to 1.85 times better CPU efficiency than Intel Xeon, while maintaining comparable efficiency with AMD Zen 5. The benchmark involved executing a variety of analytical SQL queries that emphasized scan, join, and aggregation operations, revealing significant performance advantages of NVIDIA Vera in sustaining parallel execution and improving infrastructure efficiency. These improvements are critical as datasets scale into terabytes and petabytes, underscoring the importance of CPU architecture in modern analytics and AI workloads.