StarRocks
A distributed columnar SQL engine for real-time analytics on its own tables and external data lakes. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Month
- November 2026
- Votes
- 0
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- StarRocks community (Linux Foundation)
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2021
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.starrocks.io
- Written in
- C++, Java
- Data model
- Relational
- Storage layout
- Column-oriented
- Workload
- Analytics (OLAP)
- Analytics architecture
- Lakehouse
- Query language
- SQL (MySQL dialect)
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Parallel bulk loading and streaming ingestion); Read: fast (Vectorized column scans and distributed joins); Update: moderate (Primary Key tables support upserts and partial updates); Delete: moderate (Primary Key tables mark deleted rows in a delete vector)