This competitive solution brief compares Starburst to legacy Hadoop SQL engines Hive and Impala. It highlights Starburst’s superior performance, scalability, and concurrency through its Trino-based distributed query engine. Unlike Hive and Impala, Starburst supports modern open table formats, federated querying, and separation of compute and storage. The document emphasizes reduced operational complexity, lower infrastructure costs, and faster time to insight. Organizations modernizing Hadoop environments benefit from Starburst’s ability to deliver warehouse-like analytics without replatforming or data migration.

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