Staff Data Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
2025-08-01T15:01:55Z
Aug 1, 2025
You pay for cluster uptime. It is important to be aggressive about autoscaling, as a single worker will get you a long way. I recommend never connecting a BI tool to your Galaxy cluster. Instead, write the data to Postgres or a hot database and serve it from there so you don't pay for expensive uptime to serve dashboards.
Chief Architecture Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2025-07-30T18:28:42Z
Jul 30, 2025
Pricing for Starburst Galaxy is competitive compared to running my own workloads using open source alternatives. I recommend you consider the total cost of ownership when deciding whether Starburst Galaxy is a good fit for your organization.
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You pay for cluster uptime. It is important to be aggressive about autoscaling, as a single worker will get you a long way. I recommend never connecting a BI tool to your Galaxy cluster. Instead, write the data to Postgres or a hot database and serve it from there so you don't pay for expensive uptime to serve dashboards.
Pricing for Starburst Galaxy is competitive compared to running my own workloads using open source alternatives. I recommend you consider the total cost of ownership when deciding whether Starburst Galaxy is a good fit for your organization.