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Starburst
Company blog · starburst.io/blogdatasystems
Starburst is the company blog at starburst.io, writing about data and systems. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments are mostly from people tied to Starburst, the Trino company, promoting its query engine, a job listing, and a glossary page on open table formats. None discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Query across sources with data federation, Trino, and Apache Iceberg, while limiting the need to copy data.
What Hacker News says?
Starburst, the Trino company, is hiring for several Engineering roles! Starburst is a high growth and profitable startup with a great Engineering culture and remote friendly! We work on making an Enterprise grade query engine and SaaS product based on the Trino (FKA Presto) open source project. Here are just a few of our open roles: - Software Engineer, Core Engine - Software Engineer, Cloud Integration / Ecosystem…
Comment linking /careers/open-roles/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Near Real-Time Ingestion for Trino as a story · 21 points
HN discussionStarburst (full disclosure: I work there) provides a query engine (trino under the hood) with Iceberg support [1] -- worth checking out. [1] https://www.starburst.io/platform/icehouse/
Comment linking /platform/icehouse/
on “Apache Iceberg”Submitted Starburst Acquires Varada to Deliver the New Standard of Data Lake Analytics as a story · 15 points
HN discussionApache Iceberg is one of the emerging Open Table Formats in addition to Delta Lake and Apache Hudi [1]. [1] Open Table Formats: https://www.starburst.io/data-glossary/open-table-formats/
Comment linking /data-glossary/open-table-formats/
on “Apache Iceberg”Submitted Parquet and ORC's many shortfalls for machine learning, and what to do about it? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf you want to try an SaaS Athena alternative that's backed by Trino you can check out Starburst Galaxy: https://www.starburst.io/platform/starburst-galaxy/ Full disclosure I work at Starburst.
Comment linking /platform/starburst-galaxy/
on “The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation”Submitted Torin Deep Dive: Lazy Evals in GPU-Native SQL Engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Analysis of Two Architectures for Agentic Data Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dangers of the JDBC bottleneck in Trino as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Avoid Data Access Bottlenecks When Using Trino as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trino Client Protocol Improvements as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why to Not Adopt Apache Iceberg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Full Query Passthrough to Enable Data Mesh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Get Granular: Why Granularity Impacts Role-Based Access Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will GPUs Accelerate Your Traditional SQL Workload? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking the JDBC Bottleneck in Trino as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn how Lyft, Airbnb, LinkedIn and more perform big data analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Zero-Cost Reporting Stack with Text Files, Git, and Trino as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starburst just laid off 15% as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starburst Galaxy Warp Speed: Smart Indexing and Caching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starburst unveils Gravity – discovery, governance, and sharing for all your data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarks on Trino (Fka PrestoSQL) for Long-Running Data Pipeline Queries as a story · 1 points
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