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, Azure and GCP.


noSelf-managed

SLA

yesYes

noNo

Pricing

yesPay-as-you-go

yesReserved

Multi-warehouse

yesYes

noNo

Terraform and API-based scaling

yesYes

noNo

Compute autoscaling

yesYes

noNo

Storage autoscaling

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

Role-based access control

yesYes

yesYes

Single sign-on

yesYes

noNo

Row access/column masking policy

yesYes

noNo

Query history

yesYes

noNo

Encryption of data in transit (SSL/TLS)

yesYes

noNo

Encryption at rest (TDE)

yesYes

noNo

Failover group

yesYes

noNo

Automatic Materialized View

yesYes

noNo