Published inStarRocks Engineering·PinnedComparing Databases: A Technical GuideThere are a lot of different database solutions which offer a dizzying number of features. This guide is meant to help you match the features or capabilities to your requirements. First, let’s think about use cases. Who are your users? Do you have a few users with fixed reporting like…Data Engineering8 min readData Engineering8 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·PinnedAnnouncing StarRocks Version 3.1StarRocks version 3.0 embarked on a groundbreaking journey by officially embracing the Decoupled Storage and Computing Architecture and redefined how data lakes are analyzed. Today StarRocks Version 3.1 emerges as a refined iteration. Within the separated storage and compute architecture, StarRocks has supplemented numerous functionalities present in the unified storage-compute…Open Source9 min readOpen Source9 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·PinnedHow To Reduce Snowflake Costs by 80%Greater economic uncertainty means enterprises are looking to reduce their Snowflake costs more than ever. Traditional approaches to Snowflake cost control are far from an easy fix, however. Most common approaches have the undesirable side effect of strictly limiting the business’s usage or generating significant amounts of additional work for…Snowflake9 min readSnowflake9 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·PinnedAirbnb Builds a Fast Analytics Experience with StarRocksAirbnb is a world-famous community-based online marketplace for lodging. It provides a platform for hosts to share accommodations with travelers around the world. There are over 6M active listings available on the Airbnb platform today, 4M+ hosts provide listings on Airbnb, and over 1B+ Airbnb guest arrivals all-time (as of…Data Analysis10 min readData Analysis10 min read
Nov 20Tencent Unifies Their Gaming Analytics With StarRocksTencent Games, the gaming division of the global tech giant Tencent, owns and manages some of the gaming industry’s most popular franchises including the blockbuster hit “League of Legends”. …Use Cases5 min readUse Cases5 min read
Nov 17High-Concurrency OLAP Workloads with StarRocks Query CacheApplication performance can suffer when thousands of users run lots of potentially heavy aggregation queries against large complex datasets. Luckily, StarRocks provides a query cache that speeds up aggregations by reusing the intermediate results of previous queries. When a query is executed, the query cache is checked first. If the…Tech Deep Dive10 min readTech Deep Dive10 min read
Nov 17Answering Questions About StarRocks vs. ClickHouseOne of the most common solutions our customers compare us to in their evaluation process is ClickHouse, and that’s no surprise. After all, ClickHouse is an established, well-known player in the real-time analytics space. What might be a surprise to some, however, is how often CelerData and StarRocks come out…Data3 min readData3 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·Nov 15Ditch Denormalization in Real-Time Analytics With JOINsThe content of this blog post is based on our recent webinar: Ditching denormalization in Real-time analytics: How StarRocks Delivers Superior JOIN Performance . StarRocks’ powerful JOIN performance has helped industry leaders like Airbnb, Tencent, and Lenovo eliminate their need for denormalization. …Data20 min readData20 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·Nov 15From Denormalization to Joins: Why ClickHouse Cannot Keep Up*The content of this blog post is based on our recent webinar, “From Denormalization to Joins: Why ClickHouse Cannot Keep Up”. ClickHouse has long been praised for its performance, but that performance is limited to the local maximum offered by solutions dependent on denormalization. Significant advances in JOIN technology…Data11 min readData11 min read
Published inStarRocks Engineering·Nov 7Separation of Storage and Compute — Cut Costs and Enhances EfficiencyTraditional databases are designed to have computing workloads run on local nodes to minimize data movement and reduce query latency. As data volumes and demands for real-time analysis grow, this storage-compute coupled architecture becomes unsatisfactory. Issues like wasteful compute resources in traffic valleys, complex data distribution and deployment, and costly…Data10 min readData10 min read
