What is StarRocks?

StarRocks is a Linux Foundation open-source Lakehouse SQL engine. Optimized for low latency and high concurrency data warehouse-like workloads, its performance enables customer-facing analytics directly on open data lakes.

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SUB-SECOND QUERIES AT SCALE

Enable customer-facing analytics on open data lakes with its MPP, C++ SIMD-optimized execution engine, intelligent caching framework, and specific optimizations for open data lakes.
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SIMPLIFIED ARCHITECTURE

Simplify your data architecture by eliminating data ingestion and copying it into a proprietary data warehouse while handling data transformation internally without a separate data processing tool.

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OPEN SOURCE

Use StarRocks with no vendor lock-in and join an active community of contributors from Fortune 500 companies and leading tech giants worldwide.

Fast, Fresh, and Flexible: Analytics With No Compromise

From streaming to high-performance analytics directly on the lakehouse, StarRocks offers a robust feature set. Learn more about them and how they enhance performance with real-life use cases. 

StarRocks Performance

4.62x

FASTER THAN TRINO ON TPC-DC 1TB

 

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QUERY LATENCY ON OPEN DATA LAKES

2.20x

FASTER THAN CLICKHOUSE ON DENORMALIZED SSB 100GB

StarRocks Use Cases

Leading enterprises across every industry are adopting StarRocks for their business-critical analytics operations.
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GAMING

Tencent Games is reducing storage costs by 15x while eliminating all pre-aggregations through unifying all workloads on its data lakehouse.

 

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TRAVEL

Airbnb has entered a new era of fast analytics with sub-second query performance made possible by StarRocks.

 

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SOCIAL

Pinterest achieved a 3-fold increase in cost-performance efficiency and 10-second data freshness thanks to StarRocks.

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E-COMMERCE

It was with StarRocks, that one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, Shopee, was able to 3x performance across the company.

Commercial StarRocks: CelerData Cloud

Started by the original StarRocks team, CelerData provides a commercial offering based on StarRocks—CelerData Cloud. Equipped with enterprise features such as row/column-level RBAC, advanced security features, and a multi-warehouse architecture, CelerData provides the industry-leading cloud-managed query engine that helps you get to production faster.

 

StarRocks vs. CelerData: Which to Use?

CelerData offers advanced security features (such as SSO), more fine-grained access control features (such as row/column masking), and resource isolation based on multi-warehouse architecture. All of these are necessary for enterprise workloads.

 

Being a cloud-managed solution with a pay-as-you-go cost structure, CelerData enables you to start your data lake querying journey with almost no fixed cost.

 

Comparing StarRocks to CelerData

Comparison

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Hosting

 

yesBYOC: Control plane in Celerdata VPC, Data plane in Customer's VPC. Compatible with AWS and Azure.


noSelf-managed

SLA

yesYes

noNo

Pricing

yesPay-as-you-go

yesReserved

Multi-warehouse

yesYes

noNo

Terraform-based scaling

yesYes

noNo

API-based scaling

yesYes

noNo

Manage catalogs through GUI

yesYes

noNo

Manage data ingestion through GUI

yesYes

noNo

Suspend and resume

yesYes

noNo

GUI-based SQL editor and profiling

yesYes

noNo

Visualized monitoring

yesYes

noNo

Management API (REST/Terraform)

yesYes

noNo

ODBC, JDBC, HTTP

yesYes

yesYes

Connectors for BI tools

yesCertified PBI, Tableau

noBasic

Data integration

yesYes

noNo

Role-based access control

yesYes

noYes

Single sign-on

yesYes

noNo

SSL/HTTPS connection

yesYes

noNo

Row access/column masking policy

yesYes

noNo

Audit logging

yesYes

noNo

Encryption of data in transit (SSL/TLS)

yesYes

noNo