Events

Apache Iceberg is designed for open, governed analytics at scale—but slow and inconsistent queries hurt user experience and force teams to fall back on proprietary data warehouses, sacrificing openness and governance in the process. Join CelerData product manager Sida Shen for an informative delve into improving performance and governance with Iceberg, and a look at how Iceberg v3 will impact these challenges.

Suresh Bysani, Director of Engineering at Eightfold AI, joins Sida Shen from CelerData to share Eightfold’s journey from Redshift to CelerData. Learn how Eightfold embraced real-time product analytics, and how this move is powering their next leap: agentic analytics.

The CelerData team will be attending the 2025 Iceberg Summit both online and in person. Join us and many others as we celebrate all things Iceberg and get a look at what's coming next for users of both Iceberg and StarRocks.

Avoid costly mistakes from suboptimal customer-facing analytics with insights pulled from the experiences of one of the world's leading experts on customer-facing analytics: Pinterest. Join Pinterest's Zhenxiao Luo and StarRocks PM Sida Shen for a deep technical discussion—designed by engineers, for engineers. Discover how Pinterest is investing in customer-facing analytics and the impact this work is having on its customers and bottom line.

StarRocks 3.4 is here and introduces major enhancements to data lake analytics, query performance, and search capabilities. Join StarRocks contributor Sida Shen as he examines these enhancements and shares how you can leverage them to further optimize your analytics and expand the range of your workloads.

TikTok's uncertain future has driven a massive migration of users to another major platform: Xiaohongshu/RedNote. Learn how Xiaohongshu is able to easily handle this influx of users and how it has optimized its data infrastructure to meet the growing needs of its ads platform and customer-facing analytics. Sida Shen, StarRocks contributor and product manager, will explain how one of the world's fastest growing social platforms has managed to scale its customer-facing analytics using open-source technologies and reduce costs at the same time.

Join the StarRocks community as we review the features and releases that made 2024 a banner year for the project and be the first to learn where we’re going in 2025.Hosted by StarRocks TSC member Harrison Zhao and StarRocks contributors Chelsea Wang and Sida Shen, this once-a-year event offers you a unique chance to better understand the project, its roadmap, and its community.

This webinar dives into how Demandbase transformed its data architecture to overcome scaling limitations, optimize performance, and reduce costs—ensuring a robust foundation for customer-facing analytics. Join Demandbase’s Principal Data Engineer Nick Reich and CelerData PM Sida Shen as they share how Demandbase overhauled its analytics architecture, ditching denormalization and overcoming the scaling issues that come with it.

Join us for another CelerData quarterly update where we'll explore the latest features released on CelerData Cloud. This quarter welcomes several major features designed to reduce operational overhead, boost security, ensure availability, and enhance connectivity. CelerData Product Manager Sida Shen will walk you through every improvement, share how you can take advantage of these changes right away, and answer all your questions.

Real-time analytics has never been so easy. Every business wants to enhance its decision-making with fresh data, but many have convinced themselves that day or week-old information is acceptable, thinking real-time is too expensive or impossible for their use case. This webinar will turn that thinking on its head. Join CelerData PM Sida Shen and Ben Gamble, Field CTO of Ververica, as they share the latest tools and best practices for transforming how leading enterprises use data in real-time.

Before you make your next lakehouse investment, understand what’s coming from the industry giants shaping its future. Gain clarity and confidence when it comes to the future of the lakehouse directly from Databricks in this intimate hourlong fireside chat between CelerData, Databricks, and you.

Join us for an exclusive webinar to learn about the newly released vector search and indexing features in StarRocks. This session will be led by StarRocks contributor Petri (Pengcheng) Zhang from Tencent. Petri will guide you through the fundamentals of vector indexes and implementations in StarRocks, along with tips on maximizing their benefits.

Apache Superset promises quick insights through interactive, no-code dashboards. Still, it can struggle to deliver due to the unsatisfactory performance and limited capabilities of the query engines chosen to power it. In this session, CelerData's Sida Shen will explore the essential capabilities your query engine must possess to achieve the BI performance everyone hopes for, but few often get.

Join the StarRocks and Apache Iceberg community to hear about the latest developments in the lakehouse field. This Meetup also includes a special presentation by the StarRocks team that's sure to enhance how you work with Iceberg.

Join StarRocks and the Unity Catalog community for the project's bi-weekly meetup. Find out what's new with Unity Catalog, and see how the project's partners are enhancing the experience. Includes a presentation of StarRocks' latest integration improvements with Unity Catalog. Join the project's Slack channel to get additional invite details.

​​Come meet with tech innovators in the Data Infrastructure and Observability domain, learn about cutting-edge technologies, and see how users benefit from these innovations. The ​StarRocks team will be showcasing how you can build customer-facing analytics directly on your open data lake.

We are excited to announce an upcoming StarRocks community virtual meetup. This is a can’t-miss event for all StarRocks users. StarRocks Contributors Sida Shen and Harrison Zhao will lead this event and be available to answer any questions you have about the project.

The clock is ticking for Rockset users following the company’s acquisition by OpenAI. With services shutting down in September, current customers will be without a critical component of their analytics infrastructure. Understanding the urgency, we’ve designed this webinar to jumpstart your search for a Rockset replacement. Depending on your use case, there are a lot of good options. Find out which is right for you.

Materialized views are one of StarRocks’ most popular and powerful features, but are you getting the most out of them? Go beyond the basics and understand all the benefits you could be enjoying with StarRocks’ unique approach to materialized views. Featuring StarRocks contributor Murphy Wang, the technical mind behind the project’s materialized views.

The CelerData team will be at Databricks' Data + AI Summit 2024. Drop by our booth (#75) to discover what's new with CelerData and StarRocks, and hear from Coinbase's Eric Sun who'll be discussing the future of lakehouse analytics.

Attend this exclusive webinar to explore the exciting new features and improvements introduced in StarRocks version 3.3. Led by StarRocks contributor Sida Shen, this session will walk you through 3.3, answer all of your questions, and share tips for making the most of this new release. 

Lakehouses promise flexibility, easy data governance, and cost-effectiveness, but often those promises are broken as users are forced to copy their data into proprietary warehouses for acceptable query performance. For many, this remains the status quo, but for those adopting modern lakehouse query engines, these lakehouse limitations are a thing of the past. Join CelerData PM Sida Shen as he pulls back the curtain on CelerData Cloud Serverless, a fully managed lakehouse query engine. Discover how this new generation of StarRocks-powered tech is making it possible for lakehouse users to ditch their data warehouse.

Join our upcoming session with Fritz Larco, the creator of Sling, for a comprehensive exploration of Sling, the tool that simplifies and enhances the efficiency of transferring data between diverse platforms, such as major databases and file systems. The session will include an overview of Sling, its development history, and future directions. Fritz will detail the technical strengths of this tool, its integration with StarRocks, and how this enhances data processing and analysis.

The CelerData team will be attending Data Universe 2024. Drop by booth #424 and discover what's new with CelerData and the StarRocks project. Our engineers will be on hand to answer even your most technical questions and help you solve you analytics challenges.

Rayees Pasha, Head of Product at RisingWave, will offer a deep dive into RisingWave, a distributed SQL streaming database that enables simple, efficient, and reliable streaming data processing. He will delve into the technical aspects that set it apart and discuss its compatibility and benefits when integrated with StarRocks, including how this combination can lead to more efficient data processing and analysis.

From Trip.com to Tencent Games, more and more enterprises are adopting StarRocks for their query engine, but why? This webinar answers that question, and will teach you not only why StarRocks adoption is growing, but also the features and use cases that have made it the choice for industry leaders like Airbnb, and how you can benefit from it too. Join StarRocks expert Sida Shen for a 45-minute workshop where he'll be taking all your questions. If you've just started evaluating StarRocks or if you just want to know what makes it so popular, this webinar was designed for you.

Understanding conversion funnel and rates is essential for deciphering e-commerce shopping behavior. In this live event, Albert Wong from StarRocks will provide an anonymized, real-world customer dataset featuring 87 million events and 4 million unique products spanning 10,000 product categories. He'll showcase how to deploy a modern data lakehouse with Apache Hudi, and MinIO, then conduct complex analytics, including JOIN operations, to analyze purchasing patterns and product conversion rates with StarRocks as the analytical engine.

Your data lakehouse promised flexibility, scalability, and greater cost-effectiveness, but you'd consider yourself lucky if it could deliver at least two of those three most of the time. This is the sad reality for most lakehouse users, but with a fresh approach to data lake system designs, you could be enjoying the three big benefits of the lakehouse and more. Join CelerData's data lakehouse expert Sida Shen for a 30-minute crash course on where lakehouse design often goes wrong and what you can do to avert disaster before it happens.

StarRocks version 3.2 is here and with it comes several new ways to streamline workflows, boost your performance, and enable even greater flexibility in how you approach data analysis. Join StarRocks expert and developer advocate Albert Wong for this information-packed discussion where he'll walk you through what's new in 3.2 and share tips for how you can make the most of these improvements.

Data lake performance is getting a huge boost in 2024, and materialized views are why. Join CelerData’s data lake expert, Sida Shen, as he dives into what has been holding data lake performance back, why a more intelligent approach to materialized views can solve these challenges, and how to plan ahead to make 2024 the year of amazing data lake performance for your company.

Real-time analytics continues to emerge as a top priority for enterprises, but most legacy data infrastructures struggle to support the speed and scalability it requires. To educate IT leaders and data professionals about key considerations and emerging best practices, DBTA is hosting this special webinar.

Trino, long praised for its data lake analytics performance, now struggles to keep up with modern demands for lower latency and high concurrency at scale. Join data engineering expert Sida Shen for a deep dive into the latest developments in data lakehouse querying and discover why it's time to transition from Trino.

Apache Druid has been a popular choice for its real-time data ingestion and querying capabilities, but its performance continues to disappoint. This is especially true when comparing it to modern database technologies. Is there a way to fix this? Or is it time to embrace alternatives? You’ll find the answer in this webinar.

Significant advances in JOIN technology now allow you to ditch denormalization and enjoy record-setting performance improvements in return. Learn all about those advances and how you can break free from the limitations of denormalization in this 30-minute webinar.

User-behavior analytics has proven itself to be a great way for enterprises to grow revenue and improve the stickiness of their products, and in this webinar, you’ll learn how you can apply it to your business. Join data engineering expert Sida Shen for a 45-minute technical discussion that explores what you need to know and will have you up to speed and doing user-behavior analytics with StarRocks by the end of the session.

Join us for the very first community meetup in Singapore! Get ready to embark on an exciting journey as we delve into the realm of StarRocks, introducing the cutting-edge real-time SQL engine tailored for enterprise-level analytics. For this event, we've gathered a select group of StarRocks users from the Singaporean community to share their invaluable insights and best practices in leveraging StarRocks to achieve real-time analytics excellence.

Complex real-time data pipelines are now a thing of the past. Going "pipeline-free" is the new best practice for data-driven businesses, and in this webinar we'll teach you how to build your own pipeline-free platform. This engineer-led discussion will cover the finer points of pipeline development in real-time analytics, and identify the key areas you should focus on when going pipeline-free.

StarRocks’ powerful JOIN performance has helped industry leaders like Airbnb, Tencent, and Lenovo eliminate their need for denormalization. In this webinar, we’ll explore just how StarRocks’ JOIN operations work, how they replace denormalization in real-time analytics, and what you need to know when considering if StarRocks’ approach is right for you.

As organizations increasingly recognize the power of democratizing data analytics, user-facing analytics has emerged as a significant focus area (UFA). Implementing UFA, however, presents unique challenges. In this webinar, we’ll address these challenges head-on, share solutions, and offer a robust foundation in user-facing analytics.