What is StarRocks?

StarRocks is a Linux Foundation open-source data warehouse that powers real-time, lakehouse, and AI workloads. It runs complex multi-table queries fast and reliably at scale, with sub-second latency, second-level data freshness, and predictable performance.
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Fast

Serve complex multi-table ad-hoc queries and high-concurrency customer-facing dashboards.
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Scalable

Scale compute, storage, and workloads independently for multiple tenants.
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Unified

One open source SQL engine for real-time, lakehouse, and AI analytics.

One Engine for Real-Time Analytics and Lakehouse

Real-time upserts, sub-second multi-table queries, and analytics directly on your lakehouse, unified in one single engine.
 
Learn more about how StarRocks simplifies analytics 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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FinTech

Intuit Achieved sub-4-second Real-Time Analytics at 100K+ Events Per Second using StarRocks

 

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Digital Advertising

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.

Best Way To Run StarRocks on The Cloud

CelerData is the initiator and maintainer of StarRocks. CelerData Cloud brings an enterprise-ready, fully managed, BYOC StarRocks—open, secure, and free from lock-in.

 

StarRocks vs. CelerData: Which to Use?

CelerData offers advanced security features like SSO, fine-grained access control features such as row/column masking, and resource isolation based on a multi-warehouse architecture. 

 

Wth a pay-as-you-go cost structure, CelerData Cloud 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

Vulnerability Management

yesYes 

 Nono

Cross-cluster replication

 yes Yes

 no No

Automatic Online Upgrades

 yes Yes

 no No

Data backups, snapshots, and restores

yesAutomated

no

Manual