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Starburst, a leader in data and AI platforms, today announced optimizations for the NVIDIA Vera CPU, unveiled at NVIDIA GTC. Starburst customers will gain access to breakthrough query performance, lower-latency AI inference, and significant cost efficiencies from day one of Vera availability later in 2026.
Starburst announced it is optimizing its Trino-powered platform for the NVIDIA Vera CPU, becoming the first open hybrid lakehouse platform to support NVIDIA's new inference compute platform.
The optimizations will deliver faster query performance, lower-latency AI inference, and significant cost efficiencies for customers from day one of Vera availability.
Starburst's federated model enables live, governed enterprise data to feed inference workloads, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI in real time without data movement or duplication.
Early benchmark testing shows Starburst on NVIDIA Vera CPU delivering materially faster query performance and higher CPU efficiency than comparable x86-based configurations.
The integration extends across validated enterprise architectures, including the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, where Starburst serves as the analytics and governance engine.
Starburst is also developing GPU acceleration for Trino using NVIDIA CUDA and cuDF for future generations of federated analytics and AI inference workloads.
As enterprise demand shifts from model training to production inference powering agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and real-time applications, NVIDIA Vera addresses the performance and cost constraints that have limited AI adoption at scale. Starburst's Trino-powered platform is uniquely positioned to capitalize on Vera, NVIDIA's next-generation data center CPU designed for fast agentic reasoning and data analytics.
While competing platforms require data to be centralized into proprietary warehouses before it can power AI, Starburst delivers hybrid, federated, and governed data access at inference speed directly where the data lives, across lakes, warehouses, and operational systems, without movement or duplication.
"The future of enterprise AI depends on fast access to governed data," said Justin Borgman, Founder and CEO of Starburst. "With NVIDIA Vera, Starburst aims to bring real-time analytics and inference directly to where that data lives."
"The future of enterprise AI relies on securing instant insights from data that is often distributed across complex hybrid environments," said Dion Harris, senior director, HPC, Cloud and AI Infrastructure, NVIDIA. "Our work with Starburst, optimizing their Trino-powered platform for NVIDIA Vera CPU, will deliver a foundational solution for real-time, federated data processing."
Early benchmark testing shows Starburst on NVIDIA Vera CPU delivering materially faster query performance and significantly higher CPU efficiency than comparable traditional x86 CPU-based configurations, while maintaining predictable performance for mixed BI and AI inference workloads. For customers, this translates into four core advantages.
First, it enables faster time to AI value, with live, governed enterprise data feeding inference workloads, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI in real time, eliminating the ETL bottleneck that delays AI projects. Second, it delivers lower total cost of ownership, as Vera's efficient architecture paired with Starburst's federated model avoids costly data duplication, compounding savings across compute and storage.
Third, it provides predictable performance at scale, with deterministic throughput for concurrent analytics and AI workloads, even across complex, multi-source datasets. Fourth, it ensures built-in enterprise governance, with fine-grained access controls and policy enforcement traveling with every query, ensuring AI applications consume only authorized, compliant data as organizations scale into regulated environments.
"With Trino running on NVIDIA Vera CPU, we're unlocking a new level of performance and efficiency for federated data access, enabling customers to run analytics and query data directly where it lives - the result is faster insights, lower infrastructure overhead, and a platform built to scale with growing enterprise needs," said Jitender Aswani SVP of Engineering, Starburst.
Starburst's optimization extends across validated enterprise architectures, including the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and the Dell AI Data Platform, where Starburst serves as the analytics, data access, and governance engine. Customers deploying Vera within these configurations gain a fully integrated, inference-ready stack from infrastructure to insight.
In addition to support for Vera CPU, Starburst is developing GPU acceleration for Trino using NVIDIA CUDA and NVIDIA cuDF for structured data. This future capability will bring large-scale parallelism and accelerated columnar processing to federated analytics and AI inference, powering the next generation of retrieval-augmented and agentic AI workloads. The initiative reflects Starburst's vision to unify compute across CPUs and GPUs within a single open engine, enabling enterprises to harness governed, high-performance data processing at the speed of innovation.
About Starburst
Starburst is a leader in federated data and the foundation for enterprise AI, built for flexibility, delivering fast, secure access to all your data, wherever it lives. Whether on-premises, across clouds, or in hybrid environments, Starburst provides choice and control to your architecture. Built on an open data stack with Trino and Apache Iceberg, it unifies distributed data without complex or costly migrations, unleashing the full power of the data lakehouse for analytics and AI.
With our Lakeside AI architecture, enterprises gain federated access, governed collaboration, and full data lineage, laying the foundation for scalable, compliant AI innovation. Starburst empowers data-intensive and security-conscious organizations to unlock the full potential of their data while ensuring performance, governance, and control.
Enterprises in 60+ countries, including Comcast, Citigroup, and 4 of the top 5 global banks, rely on Starburst to power analytics and AI initiatives while maintaining flexibility and control. Our strategic partnerships with AWS, Dell Technologies, NetApp, and top cloud providers ensure seamless interoperability across environments.
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