Collibra vs Starburst Galaxy

Collibra Platform connects data producers and consumers and brings together structured and unstructured sources for trusted, AI-ready data. Its product stack includes AI Command Center, Data Catalog, Data Privacy, Data Governance, Data Quality & Observability, Data Lineage and Data Marketplace. Collibra AI Governance lets organizations catalog, assess and monitor AI use cases, models and agents. Automated workflows coordinate governance decisions and help address knowledge gaps, while Data Quality & Observability offers profiling and automated or custom monitoring to detect and address anomalies. Data can be collected through Excel or CSV imports, JDBC connectors, native integrations, APIs or manual creation. Collibra says it offers 100+ native integrations, partner integrations and APIs. Its Collibra Everywhere extension shows business context in web applications and BI tools including Salesforce, Databricks, Tableau and Slack. Product versions include Collibra Platform and Collibra Platform Self-Hosted. The company was founded in Belgium in 2008 and is headquartered in New York and Brussels. Pricing is on request; support is available during normal business hours and around the clock for Severity 1 incidents.

Starburst Galaxy is a managed cloud analytics platform built on Trino. It lets teams query data across sources in one SQL query without copying it, with availability on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Starburst lists more than 50 data sources, including Amazon S3, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery and Azure Blob. Galaxy can stream from Kafka or load CSV, JSON and AVRO files into Iceberg. Its LakeOps service automates Iceberg table compaction, snapshot expiry and orphan-file removal; AIDA converts natural-language questions into governed insights through a customizable interface or MCP. Security provisions include fine-grained RBAC and ABAC, encryption, data classification and private connectivity. Starburst describes Galaxy as SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA-ready. A free plan allows up to three clusters for ad hoc queries in standard execution mode. Usage charges vary by plan and cover items such as compute, ingestion and private-link data transfer. A 30-day trial includes Enterprise features and $500 in compute resources. Starburst recommends Galaxy for organizations without resources to manage complex data clusters.