Data virtualization · RankedStarburst Galaxy
Starburst Galaxy is a data platform from Starburst that runs distributed SQL queries across multiple data sources and open lakehouse environments · starburst.io ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Trino. Thin evidence at enterprise: seven labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Trino has 18%.
Denodo is first at 31%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Denodo is first at 84%.
Why models recommend it
“Appears to be a leading choice with approximately 17% first-choice selection rate among AI models for small B2B companies with budget considerations”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Starburst Galaxy’s free plan is an excellent starting point—no infrastructure to manage”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I recommend starting with CData Virtuality or Starburst Galaxy”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“Top Pick Overall: Starburst Galaxy (Managed Trino)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Starburst Galaxy, over the 62 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 3 | View → | |
| 21 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Starburst Galaxy →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Starburst Galaxy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- cloud-first teams who want speed and simplicity with ops handled for them
- Starting price
- 500
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free
- 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 56 of the 62 answers that named Starburst Galaxy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
168 of the 224 domain citations in answers naming Starburst Galaxy came from a third party's page. Thirty-three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 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.