StarTree Cloud - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

StarTree is a cloud-based software company that allows business customers to derive advanced insights on real-time and historical data.

StarTree provides a fully managed platform for Apache Pinot to remove the burden of infrastructure management. StarTree Cloud combines Apache Pinot's performance and scalability with advanced features. No-code data management and anomaly detection capabilities allow companies to onboard data easily and deliver real-time insights quickly to their end users.

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Background & Users

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StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot, a real-time distributed OLAP database designed for low-latency query execution even at extremely high throughput. Apache Pinot can ingest directly from streaming sources like Apache Kafka and immediately make events available for querying.

Apache Pinot currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more.

StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Guitar Center, Blinkit, and more.

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Products

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StarTree Cloud:

Enables enterprises to ingest, store (decoupled storage and compute), and query large volumes of data for their user-facing and real-time analytical applications that require millisecond response times and high throughput.

Users point to stream, batch, or data warehouse sources to store data in Apache Pinot. They can run standard SQL select queries that include filters, aggregations, group by, and more on structured and semi-structured data.

StarTree’s Bring-Your Own Cloud (BYOC) or SaaS deployment options provide advanced no-code data management and anomaly detection features without managing any underlying infrastructure or cluster.

StarTree Data Manager:

A no-code, self-service tool that helps users of all experience levels quickly get started with Apache Pinot. It provides a convenient wizard to walk users through the different table creation steps, including advanced settings. It also makes it easy to iterate on the data model before creating anything within the Pinot cluster. With Data Manager, StarTree users can go from registration to their first query within minutes.

StarTree ThirdEye:

An anomaly detection platform that allows organizations to monitor critical business KPIs in real-time and automatically detect anomalies. Stakeholders can quickly take corrective action to prevent costly errors.

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Integrations & Features

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Data Ingestion:

- Batch import in CSV, Avro, JSON, or Parquet format

- Ingest streaming data from your own Kafka cluster or hosted Kafka services like Confluent Cloud or Amazon MSK

- Ingest messages from an AWS Kinesis Stream

- Import files stored in S3

Query Connectors:

- Superset (requires Python 3)

- PrestoDB (manually, with Homebrew, with Presto CLI, or with JDBC driver)

- Trino (with Trino CLI, JDBC driver)

- Connect via Python & Java

- Broker Query API

Indexes:

- Inverted index - Used for exact lookups

- Range index - Used for range queries.

- Text index - Used for phrase, term, boolean, prefix, or regex queries.

- Geospatial index - Based on H3, a hexagon-based hierarchical gridding. Used for finding points that exist within a certain distance from another point.

- JSON index - Used for querying columns in JSON documents.

- Star-Tree index - Pre-aggregates results across multiple columns.

Extensions:

- Tiered Storage for Apache Pinot in StarTree Cloud

- Google Cloud Pubsub Ingestion in Pinot

-SQL Connector - SQL based ingestion to Pinot

- Segment Import - Parallel REALTIME to OFFLINE segment conversion

- File Ingestion - Flexible batch file ingestion

- Segment Refresh - Keep segments consistent with table config

- IAM Role-based Authentication for Amazon S3 ingestion