1 category · RankedStarburst
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data virtualization | Data platform | 11% | 4 of 99 | 6% | 32 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Starburst across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Leaders like Denodo ... Starburst consistently rank high for enterprise use, with strong governance and hybrid support.” Grok 4.20 · Data virtualization · negative prompt · first choice
“Start with Starburst Enterprise or Dremio Cloud... Starburst is the more "pure" federated query engine” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I recommend Starburst (using the open-source Trino engine) as the primary choice” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Data virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“My Top Recommendation: Starburst (Starburst Galaxy)” DeepSeek V4 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.
“Starburst | Contact sales (commercial) | While Trino-based, paid plans get expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data virtualization · budget prompt · hard negative
“Starburst | Modern, Trino-based, cloud-native | Newer, smaller ecosystem” Kimi K2 · Data virtualization · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Starburst, over the 82 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Starburst was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 73 of the 82 answers that named Starburst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
235 of the 254 domain citations in answers naming Starburst came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
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 takes 11% of first choices and Denodo takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“starburst”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 12,470 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
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 82 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 73 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | 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
Follow Starburst
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 is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Enterprise Intelligence Platform
- For
- Executives; Architects & Engineers
- Price stated
- No credit card required. starburst.io
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free; Start a Free Trial; Start free in minutes; up to $500 in credits 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
- Starting price
What Starburst's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: starburst.io, trust.starburst.io. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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'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, 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 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Starburst 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, 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.