Starburst Announces Array of New AI Capabilities to Hasten Enterprise AI and AI Agents

Starburst, the data platform for apps and AI, is introducing a variety of product innovations across its flagship offerings: Starburst Enterprise Platform and Starburst Galaxy—enabling unified on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud data to power AI.

According to the company, the new Starburst AI Agent and new AI Workflows are designed to accelerate enterprise AI initiatives and support the transition to a future-ready data architecture built on a data lakehouse.

By bringing distributed, hybrid data lakeside to power AI, apps and analytics, Starburst enables faster, more secure, and collaborative data access. With native AI tooling, the Starburst Data Catalog, and advancements to data ingestion, table maintenance and governance, enterprises can unlock the full power of the modern data lakehouse.

“AI is raising the bar for enterprise data platforms, but most architectures aren’t ready,” said Justin Borgman, CEO and co-founder of Starburst. “At the end of the day, your AI is only as powerful as the data it can access. Starburst is removing the friction between data and AI by bringing distributed, hybrid data lakeside, enabling enterprise data teams to rapidly build AI, apps, agents, and analytics on a single, governed foundation.”

With AI Workflows and the Starburst AI Agent, enterprises can build and scale AI applications faster, with reliable performance, lower cost, and greater confidence in security, compliance and control.

"We're turning the data lakehouse into an enterprise-grade platform for AI agents and applications—designed from the ground up to support air-gapped environments without compromising on flexibility. Whether deployed in a secure on-premise environment or cloud-enabled ecosystem, Starburst delivers federated, governed access, real-time context, and high-performance query processing." said Matt Fuller, VP of AI/ML products, Starburst. “We’re not just accelerating AI innovation; we’re operationalizing it, securely and at scale.”

Other features include:

• Simplify AI Governance and Collaboration – Galaxy’s AI-Powered Auto-Tagging simplifies governance by using LLMs to detect sensitive data like PII at the column level.
  Availability: In General Availability
• Interoperability Without Lock-In: Starburst Data Catalog – Starburst also unveiled Starburst Data Catalog, a modern, enterprise-grade metastore solution purpose-built to replace Hive Metastore in Starburst Enterprise.
  Availability: In Private Preview
• Fully Managed Iceberg Pipelines – Starburst Galaxy delivers a fully managed, end-to-end Icehouse lakehouse experience on Iceberg, combining automated maintenance and multiple ingestion options to simplify data readiness at scale.
  File Loader Generally Available in July, Streaming Ingest and Live Table Maintenance Generally Available now
• Scale Iceberg Workloads – Starburst Galaxy now streamlines large-scale Iceberg operations with Automated Table Maintenance to manage compaction, cleanup, and retention across deployments, to reduce storage costs and improve query performance with minimal operational overhead.
  Automated Table Maintenance is Generally Available; AWS S3 Tables and Iceberg Nanosecond Timestamp Type are in Public Preview.
• Faster, Reliable Query Performance with Starburst-Native ODBC – Starburst enhances analytics performance with a high-performance ODBC driver built for secure, scalable BI access across both Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise.
  Availability: Public Preview, GA in June
• Starburst Enterprise Gets Even Stronger – Iceberg Parity and Operational Simplicity – Starburst continues to deepen its commitment to advanced features on Starburst Enterprise with new Iceberg-powered capabilities, including Automated Table Maintenance, scheduled materialized view refreshes with Iceberg MV Automatic Refresh, and full support for Data Products on Iceberg - providing a streamlined path to a scalable, collaborative Iceberg lakehouse architecture suitable for AI workloads.
  Availability: Public Preview
• Drive Efficiency with Automatic Query Routing – Starburst Galaxy now routes queries to the right cluster based on load or user role, improving performance and simplifying access at scale.
  User Role-Based Routing is Generally Available; Deployment Set Routing is Private Preview beginning May 30th.
• Starburst: Data-to-AI Readiness Blueprint – A new services offering designed to help organizations align their data infrastructure with evolving AI strategies. This comprehensive engagement evaluates the readiness of existing data architecture, streamlines access and integration across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and ensures robust security and governance to support scalable AI workloads.
  Availability: Now

Join Starburst on May 28th for a virtual event where the company will unveil its vision for AI and walk through several exciting new announcements to its platform for data apps and AI. Register here.

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