2 categories · RankedStarburst
Starburst is a SQL query engine built on Trino that runs federated queries across multiple data sources, including lakehouse environments · starburst.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Starburst Galaxy is first at 25%.
Denodo is first at 31%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Denodo is first at 84%.
Why models recommend it
“I recommend Starburst (built on Trino) as the top choice for a data fabric focused on federated queries.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Denodo, Dremio, Starburst Galaxy, and AtScale tend to rank higher”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
“start with Starburst Galaxy for managed federation”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Starburst”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Starburst Galaxy at 2% first-choice share with 36% negative rate, 11 labels, “criticized challenger””Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“can be cost-prohibitive”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Starburst, over the 83 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | 35 | Compare → | |
| 62 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Starburst →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Starburst's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Executives; Architects & Engineers
- Price stated
- No credit card required.
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free; Start a Free Trial; Start free in minutes; up to $500 in credits
- Integrations
- 50
- Certifications
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSA STAR
- Hosting
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- Customers named
- Talkdesk, Switch, Spreetail, OCBC Bank
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 71 of the 83 answers that named Starburst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
191 of the 211 domain citations in answers naming Starburst came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| 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.