STARBURST WARP SPEED

Starburst is an enterprise data platform built on Trino that enables organizations toquery and analyze data across multiple sources through a single SQL interface.

Starburst Warp Speed

Querying massive cloud data lakes often feels slow and costly. Thankfully, Starburst Warp Speed solves this problem right away. Typically, data teams spend hours tuning tables by hand to make reports load faster. Moreover, moving files into a separate data warehouse costs too much money. Because of this, Starburst Warp Speed lets your system speed up searches on its own. As a result, your team gets instant answers directly from your data lake.

How Starburst Warp Speed Boosts Data Lakes

Cloud storage is cheap and flexible. However, standard data lakes lack the fast indexes that classic databases provide. Because of this, your query engine must scan millions of rows just to answer one simple question. Therefore, Starburst Warp Speed adds a smart speed layer right on top of your existing storage.

First, the platform watches how your users search for data. Next, software builds smart indexes and saves popular data blocks on fast local drives. Consequently, future searches skip the slow cloud scan and grab answers in milliseconds. Furthermore, our Data Engineering services help you deploy this setup without changing your current apps.

How does Warp Speed Work?

Starburst Warp Speed analyzes queries in real time and automatically creates appropriate index and cache elements to accelerate performance.
It dynamically applies indexing, caching, or a combination of both based on query patterns, helping reduce unnecessary data scans and improve query execution performance.

Starburst Warp Speed smart indexing and caching architecture diagram

Warp Speed Performance

The engine improves query performance by automatically applying indexing and caching strategies tailored to query patterns.
In Starburst’s TPC-DS benchmark, Warp Speed demonstrated a 5× performance improvement and a 10× reduction in CPU time compared with a Standard execution-mode cluster.

When To Use Warp Speed?

This technology delivers exceptional value for interactive workloads involving large, multi-dimensional datasets where users filter across many dimensions. It can help teams improve workload responsiveness or query more data at similar latency.

Teams find the greatest advantage when filtering complex data across numerous dimensions. Key use cases include:

Fraud /Anomaly detection

IoT/ Telemetry data

Clickstream and Customer 360 analytics

Log analysis and cybersecurity

Geospatial analytics