Starburst vs Dremio
Zero of fourteen models named Starburst first on the direct prompt; one named Dremio. Starburst was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Dremio by twelve and Starburst carries 32 labels and Dremio 35, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in one category this edition.
Named in one category this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the data virtualization page.
By framing
StarburstFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDremio
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Starburst and Dremio were named in the same answer forty-seven times, of the 82 answers naming Starburst and the 94 naming Dremio. In those answers Dremio took the first choice three times and Starburst one.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | ||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | ||
| Mistral Small | | |||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | ||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | ||||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | |||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | |
Starburst Dremio first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Starburst on the left and Dremio on the right.The direct prompt
Dremio first, Starburst not the choice
1 of 14 modelsStarburst was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Starburst4%#8 of 12Dremio4%#7 of 12Dremio2%#3 of 8Starburst0%#6 of 8What the models said about Starburst
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.
“Starburst | Contact sales (commercial) | While Trino-based, paid plans get expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Starburst | Modern, Trino-based, cloud-native | Newer, smaller ecosystem” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · soft negative
“Leaders like Denodo ... Starburst consistently rank high for enterprise use, with strong governance and hybrid support.” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · first choice
“Start with Starburst Enterprise or Dremio Cloud... Starburst is the more "pure" federated query engine” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I recommend Starburst (using the open-source Trino engine) as the primary choice” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
What the models said about Dremio
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.
“Choose Dremio if you're building a modern lakehouse with self-service analytics (with caution given recent SAP acquisition)” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Start with Starburst Enterprise or Dremio Cloud. Both give federated SQL with push-down execution, consumption-based pricing” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Dremio (Community or Cloud). It gives you the best balance of "free" and "enterprise-grade" features.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“should look at AtScale or Dremio” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.