- StarRocks
- Introduction to StarRocks
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- Deployment
- Deployment overview
- Prepare
- Deploy
- Deploy shared-nothing StarRocks
- Deploy and use shared-data StarRocks
- Manage
- Table Design
- Understand StarRocks table design
- Table types
- Data distribution
- Data compression
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- Data Loading
- Concepts
- Overview of data loading
- Load data from a local file system or a streaming data source using HTTP PUT
- Load data from HDFS
- Load data from cloud storage
- Load data from Apache KafkaĀ®
- Continuously load data from Apache KafkaĀ®
- Load data from Apache Sparkā¢
- Load data using INSERT
- Load data using Stream Load transaction interface
- Realtime synchronization from MySQL
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- Change data through loading
- Transform data at loading
- Data Unloading
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- Gather CBO statistics
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- Auxiliary Commands
- Data Types
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- Function Reference
- Function list
- Java UDFs
- Window functions
- Lambda expression
- Aggregate Functions
- any_value
- approx_count_distinct
- array_agg
- avg
- bitmap
- bitmap_agg
- count
- corr
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- group_concat
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- grouping_id
- hll_empty
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- max
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- min_by
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- percentile_approx
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- retention
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- Array Functions
- all_match
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- array_agg
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- array_map
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- array_to_bitmap
- cardinality
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- reverse
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- Bit Functions
- Bitmap Functions
- base64_to_bitmap
- bitmap_agg
- bitmap_and
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- bitmap_count
- bitmap_from_string
- bitmap_empty
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- bitmap_hash
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- bitmap_max
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- bitmap_or
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- bitmap_to_array
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- bitmap_to_string
- bitmap_union
- bitmap_union_count
- bitmap_union_int
- bitmap_xor
- intersect_count
- sub_bitmap
- to_bitmap
- JSON Functions
- Overview of JSON functions and operators
- JSON operators
- JSON constructor functions
- JSON query and processing functions
- Map Functions
- Binary Functions
- Conditional Functions
- Cryptographic Functions
- Date Functions
- add_months
- adddate
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- current_time
- current_timestamp
- date
- date_add
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- dayname
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- microseconds_add
- microseconds_sub
- minute
- minutes_add
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- minutes_sub
- month
- monthname
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- seconds_add
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- weeks_add
- day_of_week_iso
- weeks_diff
- weeks_sub
- year
- years_add
- years_diff
- years_sub
- Geographic Functions
- Math Functions
- String Functions
- append_trailing_char_if_absent
- ascii
- char
- char_length
- character_length
- concat
- concat_ws
- ends_with
- find_in_set
- group_concat
- hex
- hex_decode_binary
- hex_decode_string
- instr
- lcase
- left
- length
- locate
- lower
- lpad
- ltrim
- money_format
- null_or_empty
- parse_url
- repeat
- replace
- reverse
- right
- rpad
- rtrim
- space
- split
- split_part
- starts_with
- strleft
- strright
- str_to_map
- substring
- trim
- ucase
- unhex
- upper
- url_decode
- url_encode
- Pattern Matching Functions
- Percentile Functions
- Scalar Functions
- Struct Functions
- Table Functions
- Utility Functions
- cast function
- hash function
- AUTO_INCREMENT
- Generated columns
- System variables
- User-defined variables
- Error code
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- SQL Reference
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Overview
This topic describes what a catalog is, and how to manage and query internal data and external data by using a catalog.
StarRocks supports the catalog feature from v2.3 onwards. Catalogs enable you to manage internal and external data in one system, and offer a flexible way for you to easily query and analyze data that is stored in various external systems.
Basic concepts
- Internal data: refers to the data stored in StarRocks.
- External data: refers to the data stored in an external data source, such as Apache Hiveā¢, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and JDBC.
Catalog
Currently, StarRocks provides two types of catalogs: internal catalog and external catalog.
Internal catalog manages internal data of StarRocks. For example, if you execute the CREATE DATABASE or CREATE TABLE statements to create a database or a table, the database or table is stored in the internal catalog. Each StarRocks cluster has only one internal catalog named default_catalog.
External catalog acts like a link to externally managed metastores, which grants StarRocks direct access to external data sources. You can query external data directly with zero data loading or migration. Currently, StarRocks supports the following types of external catalogs:
- Hive catalog: used to query data from Hive.
- Iceberg catalog: used to query data from Iceberg.
- Hudi catalog: used to query data from Hudi.
- Delta Lake catalog: used to query data from Delta Lake.
- JDBC catalog: used to query data from JDBC-compatible data sources.
StarRocks interacts with the following two components of external data sources when you query external data:
- Metadata service: used by the FEs to access the metadata of external data sources. The FEs generate a query execution plan based on the metadata.
- Data storage system: used to store external data. Both distributed file systems and object storage systems can be used as data storage systems to store data files in various formats. After the FEs distribute the query execution plan to all BEs, all BEs scan the target external data in parallel, perform calculations and then return the query result.
Access catalog
You can use the SET CATALOG statement to switch to a specified catalog in the current session. Then, you can query data by using that catalog.
Query data
Query internal data
To query data in StarRocks, see Default catalog.
Query external data
To query data from external data sources, see Query external data.
Cross-catalog query
To perform a cross-catalog federated query from your current catalog, specify the data you want to query in the catalog_name.database_name
or catalog_name.database_name.table_name
format.
Query
hive_table
inhive_db
when the current session isdefault_catalog.olap_db
.SELECT * FROM hive_catalog.hive_db.hive_table;
Query
olap_table
indefault_catalog
when the current session ishive_catalog.hive_db
.SELECT * FROM default_catalog.olap_db.olap_table;
Perform a JOIN query on
hive_table
inhive_catalog
andolap_table
indefault_catalog
when the current session ishive_catalog.hive_db
.SELECT * FROM hive_table h JOIN default_catalog.olap_db.olap_table o WHERE h.id = o.id;
Perform a JOIN query on
hive_table
inhive_catalog
andolap_table
indefault_catalog
by using a JOIN clause when the current session is another catalog.SELECT * FROM hive_catalog.hive_db.hive_table h JOIN default_catalog.olap_db.olap_table o WHERE h.id = o.id;