Every category where a model named Starburst Galaxy for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Data virtualization	Data platform	13%	3 of 99	0%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Starburst Galaxy yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Starburst Galaxy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct10 labels3

Paraphrase10 labels7

Comparative8 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels4

Scale-constrained7 labels3

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative51 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 20 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Starburst Galaxy if you want the fastest setup, lowest administrative overhead, and variable costs that match your growth.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Data virtualization · direct prompt · first choice

“Starburst Galaxy stands out as one of the strongest options for a data virtualization platform” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data virtualization · budget prompt · first choice

“My default recommendation would be Starburst Galaxy for a mid-sized B2B company” GPT-6 Luna · Data virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The Top Pick for Heterogeneous Data Estates: Starburst Galaxy (Managed Trino)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Starburst Galaxy, over the 51 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Starburst Galaxy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Denodo49 of 5113Compare →

Dremio31 of 510Compare →

TIBCO Data Virtualization15 of 510Compare →

Teiid11 of 512Not among the top eight

Trino11 of 511Compare →

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud11 of 510Not among the top eight

CData Connect Cloud10 of 517Not among the top eight

IBM Data Virtualization8 of 511Not among the top eight

CData Virtuality7 of 515Compare →

Dremio Cloud7 of 510Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Starburst Galaxy. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 50 of the 51 answers that named Starburst Galaxy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkthat.ai40

thectoclub.com28

domo.com22

g2.com22

us.fitgap.com21

etlclub.net19

sourceforge.net19

denodo.com17

gitnux.org17

dremio.com16

221 of the 221 domain citations in answers naming Starburst Galaxy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-data-virtualization-solutions37

thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-virtualization-software26

domo.com/learn/article/best-data-virtualization-platforms22

etlclub.net/best-data-virtualization-platforms19

airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools15

us.fitgap.com/search/data-virtualization-software/small-business15

g2.com/categories/data-virtualization/small-business13

gitnux.org/best/data-virtualization-software13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

starburst.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Starburst Galaxy takes 13% of first choices and Denodo takes 28%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data virtualization platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“starburst galaxy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 65 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 6,703 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,992 · 150 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,831
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

71 ads · 65 text, 3 image, 3 video · 25 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2023, as Starburst Data, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 34 in the year, 37 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

13%

rank 3 of 99 in data virtualization

Segment leader

28%

Denodo

First choices: 17 across its categories
Named in: 51 answers
Its own site cited: in 50 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on starburst.io

2,232

subdomains included

Content

899

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,287

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Glossary or explainer	634	3	2026-09-17	Data warehouses, Object storage
Conference or event	257	0	2022-07-06
Blog	7	7	2026-09-28
Comparison	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-28Understanding on premises data lake architecture blog
2026-09-25Data governance for modern data platforms blog
2026-09-24Starburst enterprise delivers incremental iceberg materialized views query speed improvements and enhanced ai intelligen blog
2026-09-22What are the most common ai use cases for banking blog
2026-09-21Context engineering for redshift blog
2026-09-18Announcing server side scan planning with starburst and databricks blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page starburst.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Starburst Galaxy

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Starburst Galaxy; a claim can dispute any of them.

Starburst Enterprise / Starburst Galaxy 1Starburst Galaxy (Managed Trino) 1

Follow Starburst Galaxy

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Starburst Galaxy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Get started in minutes. A fully managed SaaS platform on AWS, GCP, and Azure: perfect for cloud-first teams who want speed and simplicity with ops handled for them.
starburst.io
For: cloud-first teams who want speed and simplicity with ops handled for them
starburst.io
Starting price: 500 starburst.io
Free plan or trial: Start Free starburst.io
Integrations claimed: 50 starburst.io
Certifications: SOC 2ISO 27001:2022CSA Star
Hosting: AWSGCPAzure
Customers named: TalkdeskSwitchSpreetailOCBC Bank
Not stated on the pages read: Price

What Starburst Galaxy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: starburst.io, trust.starburst.io. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Starburst Galaxy's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Starburst Galaxy, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Starburst Galaxy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Starburst Galaxy is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Starburst Galaxy, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Starburst Galaxy is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Starburst Galaxy is among the products AI models recommend first in Data virtualization this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/starburst-galaxy--data-virtualization-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/starburst-galaxy--data-virtualization-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/starburst-galaxy--data-virtualization-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.