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Gartner talk 2025-05-12 at 12:35

Starburst: How DoorDash is Realizing a Unified Query Engine

Description

Future-proof your data architecture: Learn how DoorDash built a data lakehouse powered by Starburst to achieve a 20-30% faster time to insights. Akshat Nair shares lessons learned about what drove DoorDash to move beyond Snowflake to embrace the lakehouse. He will share his rationale for selecting Trino as their lakehouse query engine and why his team chose Starburst over open source. Discover how DoorDash seamlessly queries diverse sources, including Snowflake, Postgres, and data lake table formats, achieving faster data-driven decision-making at scale with cost benefits.