Starburst Galaxy Launch Week wrap up
Blog post from Starburst
Starburst Galaxy's inaugural Launch Week introduced a series of new features and enhancements aimed at improving data performance and accessibility across various platforms. Central to the announcements were the public previews of Gravity, a universal data discovery, governance, and sharing layer, and Partner Connect, a portal for integrating key partner connections like AWS QuickSight, dbt Cloud, and Tableau Cloud. The introduction of cross-cloud analytics promises to simplify data analysis across clouds, while Great Lakes connectivity offers seamless interactions with modern table formats in data lakes. The Warp Speed feature, in public preview, enhances interactive workloads through smart indexing and caching, providing a 40% performance boost. Additionally, the platform now supports Graviton3 instances in four AWS regions, delivering a 30% improvement in workload performance. Starburst Galaxy positions itself as a comprehensive data lake analytics platform with these innovations, offering users fine-grained governance, enhanced connectivity, and optimized performance.