# StarRocks Documentation — Introduction

> Section index of the StarRocks documentation. For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.starrocks.io/llms.txt). Pages are available as Markdown at their `.md` URLs.

## Introduction

- [Architecture](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/Architecture.md): StarRocks has a simple architecture.
- [Feature Differences between Shared-nothing and Shared-data Clusters](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/feature_difference.md): Comparison of features supported in StarRocks shared-nothing versus shared-data cluster deployments.
- [Database Features](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/Features.md): StarRocks offers a rich set of features to deliver a blazing-fast, real-time analytics experience on data at scale.
- [Beta and experimental features](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/maturity.md): Explains StarRocks feature maturity levels: Experimental, Beta, Generally Available (GA), Deprecated, and End-of-Life, and what each means for production use.
- [Community Chat (via Slack)](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/slack.md): How to join the StarRocks community chat on Slack.
- [StarRocks](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/StarRocks_intro.md): StarRocks is a next-gen, high-performance analytical data warehouse that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analysis.
- [Version naming](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/versioning.md): StarRocks version naming conventions: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format, prerelease designations, and how to interpret version numbers.
- [What is StarRocks?](https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/introduction/what_is_starrocks.md): StarRocks is a next-generation, blazing-fast massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed to make real-time analytics easy for enterprises.