Blog

This curated set of posts from the Starburst blog have been compiled for the Developer Center community.

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What is a Data Catalog?

Think of a data catalog as sitting on the control plane rather than the data

Jul 17th, 2026

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A Future Look at Data Systems for Agents

Last week, Berkeley’s EPIC Data Lab (Parameswaran et al) published an essay that is absolutely

Jul 13th, 2026

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Will GPUs Accelerate Your Traditional SQL Workload?

Throughout my career, database workloads have almost exclusively been run on CPUs on traditional servers

Jul 3rd, 2026

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How Unity Catalog Enforces Fine-Grained Policies on Starburst Queries

A couple of weeks ago at the Databricks Data + AI Summit, I gave a

Jun 29th, 2026

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Introducing AIDA Skills: Extending AIDA with Domain Expertise

AIDA automatically ships with a strong analytical baseline. It understands schemas, writes SQL across federated

Jun 12th, 2026

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Understanding Query Plans

It is the middle of 2026, and with the current crop of technologist-oriented AI tools

Jun 9th, 2026

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Understanding Dynamic Connection Passthrough

Managing multiple data sources is one of the foundational demands of data engineering. As organizations

Jun 4th, 2026

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GPU-Accelerated SQL Analytics: How Starburst and NVIDIA Deliver Industry-Benchmark Speedups on GPU Infrastructure

Executive Summary Starburst is actively integrating NVIDIA cuDF, an open-source data processing toolkit,  directly into

Jun 1st, 2026

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The 8 AM Heartbeat Moments Before Your Data Pipelines Go Live

Imagine you’re a data engineer, ultimately responsible for the successful execution of your organization’s data

May 15th, 2026

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Agent Grounding: The Missing Discipline in Enterprise AI

Every enterprise will build a context layer for AI agents, whether they call it that

May 8th, 2026

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What is Agentic Data? 

Agentic data is the key to Agentic AI, and its importance is on the rise.

May 5th, 2026

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Clickstream Analytics with Starburst Galaxy Data Ingestion and AIDA

At Starburst, we leverage Kafka topics for stream event processing, and one of the ways

Apr 23rd, 2026

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