Case Study: El Toro saves $5M and improves query performance 300% with Starburst
Key results
The challenge
El Toro, an advertising-technology company, needed to run fast, live, interactive queries on its data lake while processing more than 350 billion data points per day to support ad-hoc analytics at scale.
The solution
El Toro adopted Starburst Enterprise as its analytics engine, building on Trino to make large-scale data access easier, more stable, and better supported.
“The needs we were struggling with were exactly why we ended up with Trino, and Starburst was a very natural next step for us as an Enterprise company — it makes data access easier, better, more supported, more stable, and more developed without needing to put the resources in place.”
RTRichard TeachoutCTO, El Toro
The results, in context
The company reported a 300% improvement in query performance and roughly $5 million in savings, supporting thousands of advertising campaigns launched per day.