Starburst Vision: How We’ll Get There

Starburst, led by Co-Founder and CEO Justin Borgman, aims to revolutionize data access and performance through a multi-act vision that progresses from Data Lakehouse to Data Mesh architectures. Initially, the company enhances Data Lake capabilities by integrating high-performance SQL engines and active data warehousing functionalities, achieving this through their collaboration with the Trino open-source project. Starburst's approach offers advanced autoscaling, fine-grained access control, and integration with major cloud providers. The second phase focuses on expanding into a Data Mesh paradigm, enabling self-service analytics with over 40 connectors to various data sources and integrations with data governance tools, while their Starburst Cached Views simplify data location abstraction. The third act introduces Starburst Stargate, facilitating cross-cloud and cross-region Data Mesh designs to optimize global data analytics and comply with data sovereignty regulations. While these stages form part of a broader five-act strategy, Starburst continues to innovate, inviting others to follow their evolving journey.