CelerData announced it has
contributed the StarRocks Project, a high-performance analytical database, to
the Linux Foundation, where the project will continue to grow and thrive as
part of the open source community. This contribution follows December's
announcement of StarRocks move from an Elastic License to an Apache License.
The
StarRocks project has been an independent, source code available project since
its inception in 2020. StarRocks has helped more than 500 companies
successfully launch digital transformation initiatives including market leaders
Airbnb and Lenovo.
"The Linux
Foundation is delighted to welcome the StarRocks Project into its family of
open source projects," said Mike Woster, Linux Foundation Chief Revenue
Officer. "By providing a neutral home for collaboration, the Linux Foundation
is able to bring together talented individuals and organizations from around
the world to collaborate on building innovative solutions and technologies for
shared benefit."
With StarRocks, developers can unite real-time analytics, an OLAP database, and
data lake analytics onto one engine, with one data pipeline. With its columnar
storage engine and fully vectorized operators, StarRocks makes full use of CPU
processing power and SIMD instructions to boost performance.
"This is the
first analytical database in the industry that addressed the critical technical
challenges in both real-time and batch analytics, such as the need to
denormalize data, the inability to process real-time updates, and the challenge
of supporting large numbers of concurrent users," said James Li, CEO,
CelerData. "StarRocks' unique design can handle frequent updates to past
transactions while still maintaining high query performance in real-time. This
enables use cases previously considered not suitable for real-time analytics.
We look forward to collaborating with the Linux Foundation given its
significant experience in operating an open source project. Being part of this
Foundation will help us collaborate with other open source projects to improve
user experience while building the world's best query engine."
The StarRocks Project has been lauded for its
product innovation in data analytics with recent industry award recognition
including; winner of the BIG Innovation Awards, a finalist in the Cloud Awards
for Best Cloud Business Intelligence or Analytics Solution and winner of the
Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx.