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Kyvos vs. Starburst: An In-Depth Comparison
Make an informed decision by choosing the true semantic layer
Download the full report if:
- Your query responses take more than a second
- Analytics costs are going through the roof
- Analytics performance degrades with increasing data volumes
- You want a trusted data source for supercharging downstream AI applications
- User concurrency is limited by memory
- Deployment costs are higher for huge, complex datasets
- There’s no unified and standardized view of data
- You need advanced Gen AI capabilities for true self-serve analytics
Executive Summary
Kyvos is a true universal semantic layer that simplifies analytics, improves query performance and establishes data trust for leading global enterprises—without any constraints of speed, scale or cost. The platform enables end-to-end analytics with its analytical data store and a native visualization layer.
Starburst is a data lakehouse analytics platform built on top of Trino, previously known as Presto SQL. It’s a compute-intensive, in-memory solution that incurs significantly higher costs to deliver interactive analysis. Starburst has severely limited OLAP and semantic layer functionalities and also suffers from performance degradation when dealing with large, complex datasets or thousands of concurrent users.
A Quick Comparison
| Feature | Kyvos | Starburst |
|---|---|---|
| Named Connectors for BI Tools (Certified and Listed by Vendor) | ||
| Tableau | Yes | No* |
| MicroStrategy | Yes | No* |
| Power BI | Yes | No |
| * Requires extra steps to install and set up the connector. | ||
| Other BI Tools/AI Connectivity | ||
| Excel | Yes | No |
| Excel Add-in | Yes | No |
| LangChain | Yes | No |
| Querying Languages | ||
| SQL | Yes | No |
| MDX | Yes | No |
| DAX | Yes | No |
| Rest/Java API | Yes | No |