Optum sped up analyst queries on its health data lake tenfold with Starburst.

Optum needed faster, more secure data access for analysts to give patients a complete view of their health. It put Starburst Enterprise as a single endpoint over the data lake. The page reports 10X faster queries, 30% lower infrastructure costs and $8 million in projected savings.

Starburst is a distributed query engine built on Trino, used by health systems and genomics firms to analyse dispersed data without moving it

This sits in the Data Providers stage of the AI use-case lifecycle: Named examples from the real-world-data, claims and competitive-intelligence providers pharma AI systems are trained on, benchmarked against, or run inside of.